01 Gen-35 Yada Yada

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For east of reading Gen-35

Setting

Who:

Author: Moses
Audience: Israel
Characters and People Groups:
- God
- Jacob
- Deborah (Rebekah’s nurse)
- Rebekah (mentioned)
- Rachel
- Benjamin
- Isaac
- All the people with Jacob
- Household of Jacob House of Jacob
- Foreign gods (idols, implied possessors)
Symbolic Roles:
- Deceiver:
- Deceived:
- Savior: God

What:

Main Storyline: God commands Jacob to go to Bethel and build an altar. Jacob purifies his household, removes foreign gods, and they travel. Terror from God protects them. At Bethel, Jacob builds altar; God appears, renews covenant, changes name to Israel, promises land and kings. Deborah dies. Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin near Bethlehem. Reuben lies with Bilhah. Jacob’s twelve sons listed. Jacob returns to Isaac in Hebron; Isaac dies at 180 and is buried by Jacob and Esau.

When:

Date Authored:
Date takes place: Patriarchal period

Where:

biblical name, location and modern day name, location:
- Luz/Bethel, Canaan (near modern Beit El, West Bank)
- Ephrath/Bethlehem, Canaan (Bethlehem, West Bank)
- Mamre/Kiriath Arba/Hebron, Canaan (Hebron, West Bank)

Genesis 35

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v1

God said
- to Jacob,
  - "Arise, go up to Bethel,
    - and live there.
    - Make there an altar^[1]
      - to God^[2],
        
        who appeared to you
        
        when you fled
        
        from the face
        
        of Esau
        
        your brother."
Then Jacob
- said to his household,
  - and to all who were with him,
  - "Put away the foreign gods^[3]
    - that are among you,
  - purify yourselves,
  - change your garments.
  - Let's arise, and go up to Bethel.
  - I will make there an altar
    - to God,
      - who answered me in the day of my distress,
      - and was with me on the way which I went."
- They gave to Jacob
  - all the foreign gods
    - which were in their hands,
  - and the rings
    - which were in their ears;
  - and Jacob hid them
    - under the oak
      - which was by Shechem.
They traveled,
- and a terror
  - of God
  - was on the cities
    - that were around them,
  - and they didn't pursue
    - the sons of Jacob.
So Jacob came
- to Luz
  - (that is, Bethel),
  - which is in the land of Canaan,
- he and all the people
  - who were with him.
- He built an altar there,
  - and called the place El Beth El;
    - because there God was revealed to him,
      - when he fled
        
        from the face of his brother.
- Deborah,
  - Rebekah's nurse,
  - died,
  - and she was buried
    - below Bethel
      - under the oak;
    - and its name was called Allon ^[4]Bacuth.
God appeared
- to Jacob
  - again when he came from Paddan Aram,
  - and blessed him.
God said
- to him,
  - "Your name is Jacob.
  - Your name shall not be Jacob any more,
    - but your name
      - will be Israel." Gen 32#v28
  - He named him Israel.
God said
- to him,
  - "I am God Almighty.
  - Be fruitful and multiply.
  - A nation and a company of nations
    - will be from you,
  - and kings will come out
    - of your body^[5].
  - The land which I gave
    - to Abraham and Isaac,
    - I will give it
      - to you,
      - and to your offspring after you
    - I will give the land.^[6]"
God went up
- from him
  - in the place
    - where he spoke
      - with him.
Jacob set up a pillar
- in the place
- where he spoke with him,
  - a pillar of stone. //altar//
    - He poured out a Drink Offering on it, ^[7]
    - and poured oil on it.
- Jacob called the name of the place
  - where God spoke with him
  - "Bethel".
They traveled from Bethel.
- There was still some distance
  - to come to Ephrath,
- and Rachel travailed.
  - She had hard labor.
    - When she was in hard labor,
      - the midwife said to her,
        
        "Don't be afraid,
        
        for now you will have another son."
      - As her soul was departing (
        
        for she died),
        
        she named him Benoni^[8],
        
        but his father named him Benjamin.
      - Rachel died, and was buried
        
        on the way to Ephrath
        
        (also called Bethlehem).
        
        Jacob set up a pillar
        
        on her grave.
        
        The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave
        
        to this day.
- Israel traveled,
  - and spread his tent
    - beyond the tower of Eder.
- While Israel lived in that land,
  - Reuben went
    - and lay with Bilhah^[9],
      - his father's concubine,
    - and Israel heard of it^[10].
  - Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
    - The sons of Leah:
      - Reuben
        
        (Jacob's firstborn),
      - Simeon,
      - Levi,
      - Judah,
      - Issachar,
      - and Zebulun.
    - The sons of Rachel:
      - Joseph
      - and Benjamin.
    - The sons of Bilhah
      - (Rachel's servant):
      - Dan
      - and Naphtali.
    - The sons of Zilpah
      - (Leah's servant):
      - Gad
      - and Asher.
    - These are the sons of Jacob,
      - who were born to him
        
        in Paddan Aram.
- Jacob came
  - to Isaac
    - his father,
    - to Mamre,
      - to Kiriath Arba
        
        (which is Hebron),
    - where Abraham and Isaac lived
      - as foreigners.
  - The days of Isaac
    - were one hundred eighty years.
  - Isaac
    - gave up the spirit and died,
    - and was gathered to his people,
      - old and full of days.
  - Esau and Jacob,
    - his sons,
    - buried him.

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Connections

Repeated Words:
- God (9)
- Jacob (12)
- said (6)
Other Related Scriptures:
- Genesis 28:10-22 (Jacob’s vow at Bethel)
- Genesis 17:1-8 (covenant with Abraham renewed)
- Genesis 32:28 (name changed to Israel)

Bronze Altar make an altar in Bethel ↩︎
Bronze Altar Outside the tabernacle, altar built at Bethel; pillar set up, drink offering and oil poured ↩︎
Idiom Righteous Put away the foreign gods” – remove idols from household ↩︎
Idiom Allon Bacuth” (v8) – Oak of Weeping (name of burial tree) ↩︎
Jacobiac Be fruitful... kings... land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I give to you and your offspring” ↩︎
Jacobiac Inheritance land given to Abraham and Isaac now to Jacob and offspring ↩︎
Bronze Altar Outside the temple, poured drink offering and oil on it ↩︎
Idiom Ben-oni... Benjamin” – son of my sorrow... son of the right hand ↩︎
Unrighteous Reuben lies with Bilhah (father’s concubine) ↩︎
Idiom “Israel heard of it” – understated report of grave sin ↩︎