BERESHITH (GENESIS) 35

Gen 35:1 And Elohim said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “Arise, go up to Bĕyth Ĕl and dwell
there. And make an altar there to Ĕl who appeared to you when you fled from
the face of Ĕsaw your brother.”
Gen 35:2 And Ya‛aqoḇ said to his household and to all who were with him,
“Put away the foreign mighty ones that are among you, and cleanse
yourselves, and change your garments.
Gen 35:3 “And let us arise and go up to Bĕyth Ĕl, and let me make there an
altar to Ĕl, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me
in the way which I have gone.”
Gen 35:4 So they gave Ya‛aqoḇ all the foreign mighty ones which were in
their hands, and all their earrings which were in their ears. And Ya‛aqoḇ hid
them under the terebinth tree which was near Sheḵem.
Gen 35:5 And they departed, and the fear of Elohim was upon the cities that
were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ.
Gen 35:6 And Ya‛aqoḇ came to Luz, that is Bĕyth Ĕl, which is in the land of
Kena‛an, he and all the people who were with him.
Gen 35:7 And he built there an altar and called the place El Bĕyth Ĕl,
because there Elohim appeared to him when he fled from the face of his
brother.
Gen 35:8 And Deḇorah, Riḇqah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below
Bĕyth Ĕl under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Baḵuth.
Gen 35:9 And Elohim appeared to Ya‛aqoḇ again, when he came from
Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
Gen 35:10 And Elohim said to him, “Your name is Ya‛aqoḇ, your name is no
longer called Ya‛aqoḇ, but Yisra’ĕl is your name.” So He called his name
Yisra’ĕl.
Gen 35:11 And Elohim said to him, “I am Ĕl Shaddai. Bear fruit and
increase, a nation and a company of nations shall be from you, and
sovereigns come from your body.
Gen 35:12 “And the land which I gave Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq I give to you.
And to your seed after you I give this land.”
Gen 35:13 And Elohim went up from him in the place where He had spoken
with him.
Gen 35:14 And Ya‛aqoḇ set up a standing column in the place where He had
spoken with him, a monument of stone. And he poured a drink offering on it,
and he poured oil on it.
Gen 35:15 And Ya‛aqoḇ called the name of the place where Elohim spoke
with him, Bĕyth Ĕl.
Gen 35:16 Then they set out from Bĕyth Ĕl. And it came to be, when there
was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, that Raḥĕl began to give birth, and
had great difficulty giving birth.
Gen 35:17 And it came to be, as she was having great difficulty giving birth,
that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for it is another son for you.”
Gen 35:18 And it came to be, as her life was going out – for she died – that
she called his name Ben-Oni. But his father called him Binyamin.
Gen 35:19 So Raḥĕl died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is
Bĕyth Leḥem.
Gen 35:20 And Ya‛aqoḇ set a standing column on her grave, which is the
monument of Raḥĕl’s grave to this day.
Gen 35:21 And Yisra’ĕl set out and pitched his tent beyond the tower of
Ĕḏer.
Gen 35:22 And it came to be, when Yisra’ĕl dwelt in that land, that Re’uḇĕn
went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Yisra’ĕl heard about it.
Now the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ were twelve:
Gen 35:23 the sons of Lĕ’ah were Re’uḇĕn, Ya‛aqoḇ’s first-born, and
Shim‛on, and Lĕwi, and Yehuḏah, and Yissasḵar, and Zeḇulun;
Gen 35:24 the sons of Raḥĕl were Yosĕph and Binyamin;
Gen 35:25 the sons of Bilhah, Raḥĕl’s female servant, were Dan and
Naphtali;
Gen 35:26 and the sons of Zilpah, Lĕ’ah’s female servant, were Gaḏ and
Ashĕr. These were the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ who were born to him in Paddan
Aram.
Gen 35:27 And Ya‛aqoḇ came to his father Yitsḥaq at Mamrĕ, or Qiryath
Arba, that is Ḥeḇron, where Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq had dwelt.
Gen 35:28 And the days of Yitsḥaq were one hundred and eighty years.
Gen 35:29 So Yitsḥaq breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his
people, aged and satisfied of days. And his sons Ĕsaw and Ya‛aqoḇ buried
him.