Genesis 35
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Lutheran reading notes
In Genesis chapter 35, the story continues to develop the theme of origins of creation, humanity, covenant, and the patriarchs. Lutheran interpretation often highlights how the events reveal humanity’s need for God’s grace and the reliability of God's promises. The chapter illustrates both the reality of human weakness and the faithfulness of God who works through history.
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And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Genesis 35:1 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that {were} with him, Put away the strange gods that {are} among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Genesis 35:2 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Genesis 35:3 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which {were} in their hand, and {all their} earrings which {were} in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which {was} by Shechem.
Genesis 35:4 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And 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.
Genesis 35:5 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So Jacob came to Luz, which {is} in the land of Canaan, that {is}, Bethel, he and all the people that {were} with him.
Genesis 35:6 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. {Elbethel: that is, The God of Bethel}
Genesis 35:7 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. {Allonbachuth: that is, The oak of weeping}
Genesis 35:8 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
Genesis 35:9 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And God said unto him, Thy name {is} Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
Genesis 35:10 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And God said unto him, I {am} God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
Genesis 35:11 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Genesis 35:12 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
Genesis 35:13 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, {even} a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
Genesis 35:14 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
Genesis 35:15 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. {a little...: Heb. a little piece of ground}
Genesis 35:16 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
Genesis 35:17 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin. {Benoni: that is, The son of my sorrow} {Benjamin: that is, The son of the right hand}
Genesis 35:18 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which {is} Bethlehem.
Genesis 35:19 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that {is} the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Genesis 35:20 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
Genesis 35:21 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard {it}. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Genesis 35:22 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
Genesis 35:23 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
Genesis 35:24 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
Genesis 35:25 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these {are} the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
Genesis 35:26 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which {is} Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
Genesis 35:27 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Genesis 35:28 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, {being} old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 35:29 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.