Genesis 35–36

Chapter 35

¹And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto the •God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. ²And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; ³and we will arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the •God that answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went. ⁴And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that is by Shechem. ⁵And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

⁶And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. ⁷And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother. ⁸And Deborah, Rebecca’s nurse, died; and she was buried beneath Bethel, under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. ⁹And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from Padan-Aram, and blessed him. ¹⁰And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel. ¹¹And God said to him, I am the Almighty •God: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee; and kings shall come out of thy loins. ¹²And the land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. ¹³And God went up from him in the place where he had talked with him. ¹⁴And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked with him, a pillar of stone, and poured on it a drink-offering, and poured oil on it. ¹⁵And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him, Beth-el.

¹⁶And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing. ¹⁷And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee. ¹⁸And it came to pass as her soul was departing—for she died—that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin. ¹⁹And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. ²⁰And Jacob erected a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

²¹And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent on the other side of Migdal-Eder. ²²And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve. ²³The sons of Leah: Reuben—Jacob’s firstborn—and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. ²⁴The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁵And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant: Dan and Naphtali. ²⁶And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram. ²⁷And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre—to Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron; where Abraham had sojourned, and Isaac. ²⁸And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. ²⁹And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Chapter 36

¹And these are the generations of Esau, that is Edom. ²Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, ³and Basmath Ishmael’s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. ⁴And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basmath bore Reuel. ⁵And Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau that were born to him in the land of Canaan. ⁶And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went into a country away from his brother Jacob. ⁷For their property was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were sojourners could not bear them, because of their cattle. ⁸Thus Esau dwelt in mount Seir; Esau is Edom.

⁹And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir. ¹⁰These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Basmath the wife of Esau. ¹¹—And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. ¹²And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Adah Esau’s wife. ¹³—And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basmath Esau’s wife. ¹⁴—And these are the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bore to Esau Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. ¹⁵These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, ¹⁶chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. ¹⁷And these are the sons of Reuel Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basmath Esau’s wife. ¹⁸—And these are the sons of Oholibamah Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jaalam, chief Korah; these are the chiefs of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife. ¹⁹These are the sons of Esau, and these their chiefs: he is Edom.

²⁰These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitant of the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, ²¹and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. ²²—And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna. ²³—And these are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. ²⁴—And these are the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This is the Anah that found the warm springs in the wilderness as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. ²⁵—And these are the sons of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. ²⁶—And these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. ²⁷—These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. ²⁸—These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. ²⁹These are the chiefs of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, ³⁰chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

³¹And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned a king over the children of Israel. ³²And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. ³³And Bela died; and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. ³⁴And Jobab died; and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. ³⁵And Husham died; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the fields of Moab, reigned in his stead. And the name of his city was Avith. ³⁶And Hadad died; and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. ³⁷And Samlah died; and Saul of Rehoboth on the river reigned in his stead. ³⁸And Saul died; and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. ³⁹And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died; and Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred daughter of Mezahab. ⁴⁰And these are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families, after their places, with their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, ⁴¹chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, ⁴²chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, ⁴³chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling-places in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of Edom.