Genesis 35
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Summary
God commands Jacob to go to Beth-el and to build an altar there. Jacob takes his family to Beth-el, and as they journey, they are protected by God. When they arrive in Beth-el, Jacob builds the altar and calls the place El-Beth-el. God appears to Jacob and blesses him. God calls Jacob Israel. God covenants with Jacob that the blessing given to Abraham and Isaac will be carried on through Jacob and his posterity as well. Rachel dies in Ephrath on their journey back to the land of Canaan, after giving birth to Benjamin. Reuben lays with one of his fathers concubines. Jacob meets Issac his father in the land of Mamre, and Isaac dies.
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Further Reading
Jamie J. Huston, “The Integration of Temples and Families: A Latter-day Saint Structure for the Jacob Cycle,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 13 (2015): 131–167.
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Matthew Henry (1706)
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Adam Clarke (1831)
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Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes (1834)
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Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch (1857–78)
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