Genesis 35–36

Chapter 35

Jacob Moves to Bethel

¹Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to ^aBethel and ¹live there, and make an altar there to ^bGod, who appeared to you ^cwhen you fled ²from your brother Esau.”

²So Jacob said to his ^ahousehold and to all who were with him, “Put away ^bthe foreign gods which are among you, and ^cpurify yourselves and change your garments;

³and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make ^aan altar there to God, ^bwho answered me in the day of my distress and ^chas been with me ¹wherever I have gone.”

⁴So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which ¹they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the ²oak which was near Shechem.

⁵As they journeyed, there was ^1aa great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

⁶So Jacob came to ^aLuz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

^7aHe built an altar there, and called the place ¹El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled ²from his brother.

⁸Now ^aDeborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named ¹Allon-bacuth.

Jacob Is Named Israel

⁹Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He ^ablessed him.

^10aGod said to him,

“Your name is Jacob;

¹You shall no longer be called Jacob,

But Israel shall be your name.”

Thus He called ²him Israel.

¹¹God also said to him,

“I am ^1aGod Almighty;

^bBe fruitful and multiply;

A nation and a ^ccompany of nations shall ²come from you,

And ^dkings shall come forth from ³you.

¹²“^aThe land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,

I will give it to you,

And I will give the land to your ¹descendants after you.”

¹³Then ^aGod went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.

¹⁴Jacob set up ^aa pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

¹⁵So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, ^1aBethel.

¹⁶Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to ^aEphrath, Rachel began to give birth and she ¹suffered severe labor.

¹⁷When she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now ^ayou have another son.”

¹⁸It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him ¹Ben-oni; but his father called him ²Benjamin.

¹⁹So ^aRachel died and was buried on the way to ^bEphrath (that is, Bethlehem).

²⁰Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the ^apillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

²¹Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the ^1atower of ²Eder.

²²It came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that ^aReuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.

The Sons of Israel

Now there were twelve sons of Jacob—

^23athe sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

^24athe sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

²⁵and ^athe sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali;

²⁶and ^athe sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

²⁷Jacob came to his father Isaac at ^aMamre of ^bKiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

²⁸Now the days of Isaac were ^aone hundred and eighty years.

²⁹Isaac breathed his last and died and was ^agathered to his people, an ^bold man ¹of ripe age; and ^chis sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Chapter 36

Esau Moves

¹Now these are the records of the generations of ^aEsau (that is, Edom).

²Esau ^atook his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and ^bOholibamah the daughter of Anah and the ^cgranddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

³also Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.

⁴Adah bore ^aEliphaz to Esau, and Basemath bore Reuel,

⁵and Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

^6aThen Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all ¹his household, and his livestock and all his cattle and all his goods which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land away from his brother Jacob.

^7aFor their property had become too great for them to ¹live together, and the ^bland where they ^csojourned could not sustain them because of their livestock.

⁸So Esau lived in the hill country of ^aSeir; Esau is ^bEdom.

Descendants of Esau

⁹These then are the records of the generations of Esau the father of ¹the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

¹⁰These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of Esau’s wife Adah, Reuel the son of Esau’s wife Basemath.

¹¹The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, ¹Zepho and Gatam and Kenaz.

¹²Timna was a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz and she bore ^aAmalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Esau’s wife Adah.

¹³These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

¹⁴These were the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah and the ¹granddaughter of Zibeon: ²she bore to Esau, Jeush and Jalam and Korah.

¹⁵These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau, are chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

¹⁶chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs ¹descended from Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.

¹⁷These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs ¹descended from Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

¹⁸These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These are the chiefs ¹descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

¹⁹These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.

²⁰These are the sons of Seir ^athe Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,

²¹and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan. These are the chiefs ¹descended from the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.

²²The sons of Lotan were Hori and ¹Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.

²³These are the sons of Shobal: ¹Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, ²Shepho and Onam.

²⁴These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah—he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

²⁵These are the children of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

²⁶These are the sons of ^1aDishon: ²Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.

²⁷These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and ¹Akan.

²⁸These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²⁹These are the chiefs ¹descended from the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,

³⁰chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These are the chiefs ¹descended from the Horites, according to their various chiefs in the land of Seir.

³¹Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any ^aking reigned over the sons of Israel.

^321aBela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

³³Then Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah became king in his place.

³⁴Then Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites became king in his place.

³⁵Then Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who ¹defeated Midian in the field of Moab, became king in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.

³⁶Then Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place.

³⁷Then Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king in his place.

³⁸Then Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king in his place.

³⁹Then Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and ¹Hadar became king in his place; and the name of his city was ²Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.

⁴⁰Now these are the names of the chiefs ¹descended from Esau, according to their families and their localities, by their names: chief Timna, chief ²Alvah, chief Jetheth,

⁴¹chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

⁴²chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

⁴³chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of ¹the Edomites), according to their habitations in the land of their possession.