Genesis 35

Question 1

Genesis 35:1

Answer 1

Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”

Question 2

Genesis 35:2

Answer 2

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Question 3

Genesis 35:3

Answer 3

Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Question 4

Genesis 35:4

Answer 4

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.

Question 5

Genesis 35:5

Answer 5

Then they set out, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

Question 6

Genesis 35:6

Answer 6

Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz in the land of Canaan.

Question 7

Genesis 35:7

Answer 7

There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Question 8

Genesis 35:8

Answer 8

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So it was named Allon Bacuth.

Question 9

Genesis 35:9

Answer 9

After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

Question 10

Genesis 35:10

Answer 10

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel. “ So he named him Israel.

Question 11

Genesis 35:11

Answer 11

And God said to him, “I am God Almighty ; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your body.

Question 12

Genesis 35:12

Answer 12

The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

Question 13

Genesis 35:13

Answer 13

Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.

Question 14

Genesis 35:14

Answer 14

Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

Question 15

Genesis 35:15

Answer 15

Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.

Question 16

Genesis 35:16

Answer 16

Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.

Question 17

Genesis 35:17

Answer 17

And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have another son.”

Question 18

Genesis 35:18

Answer 18

As she breathed her last - for she was dying - she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.

Question 19

Genesis 35:19

Answer 19

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath .

Question 20

Genesis 35:20

Answer 20

Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb.

Question 21

Genesis 35:21

Answer 21

Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.

Question 22

Genesis 35:22

Answer 22

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:

Question 23

Genesis 35:23

Answer 23

The sons of Leah: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.

Question 24

Genesis 35:24

Answer 24

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Question 25

Genesis 35:25

Answer 25

The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali.

Question 26

Genesis 35:26

Answer 26

The sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

Question 27

Genesis 35:27

Answer 27

Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba , where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

Question 28

Genesis 35:28

Answer 28

Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years.

Question 29

Genesis 35:29

Answer 29

Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.