Genesis 35:1

CHAPTER XXXV

Jacob is commanded of God to go to Beth-el, and to build

an altar there, 1.

His exhortation to his family to put away all strange

gods, c., 2, 3.

They deliver them all up, and Jacob hides them in the

earth, 4.

They commence their journey, 5

come to Luz, 6;

build there the altar El-beth-el, 7.

Burial place of Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, 8.

God appears again unto Jacob, 9.

Blesses him and renews the promises, 10-13.

To commemorate this manifestation of God, Jacob sets up

a pillar, and calls the place Beth-el, 14, 15.

They journey to Ephrath, where Rachel, after hard labour,

is delivered of Benjamin, and dies, 16-19.

Jacob sets up a pillar on her grave, 20.

They journey to Edar, 21.

While at this place, Reuben defiles his father's bed, 22.

Account of the children of Jacob, according to the mothers,

23-26.

Jacob comes to Mamre to his father Isaac, who was probably

then in the one hundred and fifty-eighth year of his age, 27.

Isaac dies, and is buried by his sons Esau and Jacob, 29.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXV

Verse Genesis 35:1. Arise, go up to Beth-el] The transaction that had lately taken place rendered it unsafe for Jacob to dwell any longer at the city of Shechem; and it seems that while he was reflecting on the horrible act of Simeon and Levi, and not knowing what to do, God graciously appeared to him, and commanded him to go up to Beth-el, build an altar there, and thus perform the vow he had made, Genesis 28:20; Genesis 28:22.