Genesis 35 (WK) - Bible Truth Library

Now the sons.In the Hebrew text, a break is here left in the verse, opposite to which there is a Masoretic note, which states that "there is a hiatus in the verse."

This hiatus the LXX., thus supplies:

[kai poneros ephane enantion autou ,] "and it appeared evil in his sight."

Gen. 35:18• ¹⁸And it came to pass as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Benoni ; but his father called him Benjamin . (Gen. 35:18)

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Gen. 29:31‑35• ³¹And when Jehovah saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel [was] barren.
³²And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Reuben ; for she said, Because Jehovah hath looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
³³And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I [am] hated, he hath therefore given me this one also; and she called his name Simeon .
³⁴And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Now this time will my husband be united to me, for I have borne him three sons; therefore was his name called Levi .
³⁵And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah . And she ceased from bearing. (Gen. 29:31‑35)

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Gen. 30:5‑24• ⁵And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
⁶And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and also heard my voice, and given me a son: therefore she called his name Dan .
⁷And Bilhah Rachel's bondmaid again conceived and bore Jacob a second son.
⁸And Rachel said, Wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali .
⁹When Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her bond-maid, and gave her to Jacob as wife.
¹⁰And Zilpah Leah's bondmaid bore Jacob a son.
¹¹And Leah said, What fortune! and she called his name Gad .
¹²And Zilpah Leah's bondmaid bore Jacob a second son.
¹³And Leah said, With my happiness; for the daughters will call me happy! and she called his name Asher .
¹⁴And Reuben went out in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
¹⁵And she said to her, Is it little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.
¹⁶And when Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
¹⁷And God hearkened to Leah; and she bore Jacob a fifth son.
¹⁸And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my bond-maid to my husband; and she called his name Issachar .
¹⁹And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;
²⁰and Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun .
²¹Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah .
²²And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
²³And she conceived and bore a son, and said, God hath taken away my reproach.
²⁴And she called his name Joseph ; and said, Jehovah will add to me another son. (Gen. 30:5‑24)

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Gen. 46:8‑27• ⁸And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Jacob's first-born, Reuben;
⁹and the sons of Reuben, Enoch and Phallu and Hezron and Carmi;
¹⁰and the sons of Simeon, Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Saul son of a Canaanitish woman.
¹¹And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath and Merari;
¹²and the sons of Judah, Er and Onan and Shelah, and Pherez and Zarah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul.
¹³And the sons of Issachar, Tola and Puah, and Job and Shimron;
¹⁴and the sons of Zebulun, Sered and Elon and Jahleel.
¹⁵These [are] the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and daughters [were] thirty-three.
¹⁶And the sons of Gad, Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli;
¹⁷and the sons of Asher, Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister, and the sons of Beriah, Heber and Malchiel.
¹⁸These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.
¹⁹The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, Joseph and Benjamin.
²⁰And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath bore to him, daughter of Potiphera, priest in On;
²¹and the sons of Benjamin, Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.
²²These [are] the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob: all the souls [were] fourteen.
²³And the sons of Dan, Hushim;
²⁴and the sons of Naphtali, Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.
²⁵These [are] the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: all the souls [were] seven.
²⁶All the souls belonging to Jacob that came into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives: all the souls [were] sixty-six.
²⁷And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt [were] two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob which came into Egypt, [were] seventy. (Gen. 46:8‑27)

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Gen. 49:1‑28• ¹And Jacob called his sons and said, Gather yourselves together, and I will tell you what will befall you at the end of days.
²Assemble yourselves together and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father.
³Reuben, thou [art] my first-born, my might, and the firstfruits of my vigour, excellency of dignity and excellency of strength.
⁴Bubbling up as the waters, thou shalt have no pre-eminence; because thou wentest up to thy father's couch: then defiledst thou [it]; he went up to my bed.
⁵Simeon and Levi [are] brethren, weapons of violence their swords.
⁶My soul, come not into their council; mine honour, be not united to their assembly; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will houghed oxen.
⁷Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce, and their rage, for [it was] cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
⁸Judah, thee will thy brethren praise: thy hand [will be] on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children will bow down to thee.
⁹Judah [is] a lion's whelp. From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stoopeth, he coucheth as a lion, and as a lioness: who will rouse him up?
¹⁰The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and to him will be the obedience of peoples.
¹¹He bindeth his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washeth his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes;
¹²his eyes [are] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
¹³Zebulun shall dwell at the breach of the seas, and he [shall be] for a haven of ships; and his border [shall be] upon Zidon.
¹⁴Issachar [is] a bony ass, couching between two hurdles;
¹⁵and he saw rest that [it was] good, and the land that [it was] pleasant; and he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a tributary servant.
¹⁶Dan shall judge his people, as another of the tribes of Israel.
¹⁷Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a horned serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider falleth backward.
¹⁸I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
¹⁹Gad—troops shall press upon him; but he shall press upon their heel.
²⁰Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
²¹Naphtali [is] a hind let loose; he giveth goodly words.
²²Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a fountain; daughters shoot over the wall.
²³The archers have provoked, and shot at and hated him;
²⁴but his bow abideth firm, and the arms of his hands are supple by the hands of the mighty One of Jacob. From thence [is] the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel;
²⁵from the God of thy father, he will help thee, and from the Almighty, he will bless thee, with blessings of heaven above, with blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, with blessings of the breast and of the womb.
²⁶The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my progenitors unto the bounds of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
²⁷Benjamin [is] a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and in the evening he shall divide the spoil.
²⁸All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel, and this [is] what their father spake to them; and he blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. (Gen. 49:1‑28)

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Ex. 1:1‑5• ¹And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt: with Jacob came they, the man and his household,
²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
⁴Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
⁵And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt [already]. (Ex. 1:1‑5)

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Ex. 6:14‑16• ¹⁴{i}These are the heads of their fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Enoch and Phallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are the families of Reuben.{/i}
¹⁵{i}—And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.{/i}
¹⁶{i}And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven years.{/i} (Ex. 6:14‑16)

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Num. 1:5‑15• ⁵{i}And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: for Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;{/i}
⁶{i}for Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;{/i}
⁷{i}for Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;{/i}
⁸{i}for Issachar, Nethaneel the son of Zuar;{/i}
⁹{i}for Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;{/i}
¹⁰{i}for the children of Joseph: for Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; for Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;{/i}
¹¹{i}for Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;{/i}
¹²{i}for Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;{/i}
¹³{i}for Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran;{/i}
¹⁴{i}for Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;{/i}
¹⁵{i}for Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.{/i} (Num. 1:5‑15)

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Deut. 33:1‑29• ¹{i}And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.{/i}
²{i}And he said,{/i}
³Yea, he loveth the peoples:{HR}All his saints are in thy hand;{HR}And they sat down at thy feet,{HR}Each receive thy decisions.
⁴{i}Moses commanded us a law,{HR}The inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.{HR}{/i}
⁵{i}And he was king in Jeshurun,{HR}When the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together{/i}.
⁶Let Reuben live and not die, and his men be few .
⁷And this is for Judah; and he said,{HR}Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah,{HR}And bring him unto his people:{HR}Let his hands be numerous for him,{HR}And be thou an help from his adversaries.
⁸And of Levi he said,{HR}Thy Thummim and thy Urim are for thy holy one,{HR}Whom thou didst prove at Massah,{HR}With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
⁹Who said of his father and of his mother,{HR}I have not seen him;{HR}Neither did he acknowledge his brethren,{HR}Nor know his own children;{HR}For they kept thy word,{HR}And guarded thy covenant.
¹⁰They shall teach thy judgments to Jacob,{HR}And thy law to Israel:{HR}They shall put incense before thee,{HR}And whole burnt-offering upon thine altar .
¹¹Bless, Jehovah, his force, and accept the work of his hands:{HR}Strike through the loins of those that rise up against him,{HR}And of those that hate him, that they rise not again.
¹²Of Benjamin he said,{HR}The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell in safety by him;{HR}He shall harbour him all the day,{HR}And he shall dwell between his shoulders.
¹³And of Joseph he said,{HR}Blessed of Jehovah be his land for the precious things of the heavens,{HR}For the dew and for the deep couching beneath,
¹⁴And for the precious things brought forth by the sun,{HR}And for the precious things driven out by the moon,
¹⁵And for the chief things of the ancient mountains,{HR}And for the precious things of the lasting hills,
¹⁶And the good pleasure of him that dwelt in the bush:{HR}Let it come on the head of Joseph,{HR}And on the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
¹⁷The first-born of his herd is honour to him,{HR}And his horns the horns of a buffalo:{HR}With them he shall push peoples together to the ends of the earth;{HR}And they are the myriads of Ephraim,{HR}And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
¹⁸And of Zebulun he said,{HR}Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out;{HR}And, Issachar, in thy tents.
¹⁹They shall call the peoples to the mountain;{HR}There they shall sacrifice sacrifices of righteousness;{HR}For they shall suck the abundance of the seas,{HR}Even treasures hidden in the sand.
²⁰And of Gad he said,{HR}Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad:{HR}He dwelleth as a lioness,{HR}And teareth the arm,{HR}Also the crown of the head.
²¹And he provideth the first part for himself;{HR}For there is the portion covered for the lawgiver;{HR}And he came with the heads of the people;{HR}He did the righteousness of Jehovah,{HR}And his judgments with Israel.
²²And of Dan he said,{HR}Dan is a lion's whelp;{HR}He shall leap from Bashan.
²³And of Naphtali he said,{HR}O Naphtali, satisfied with good will,{HR}And full of the blessing of Jehovah,{HR}Possess thou the west and the south.
²⁴And of Asher he said,{HR}Asher, blessed among sons,{HR}Let him be acceptable to his brethren,{HR}And dip his foot in oil:
²⁵Thy shoes iron and copper;{HR}And thy strength as thy days.
²⁶There is none like the God of Jeshurun,{HR}Riding the heavens for thy help,{HR}And for his excellency the skies.
²⁷The God of ages is a refuge,{HR}And underneath the everlasting arms;{HR}And he shall drive away the enemy from thy presence,{HR}And say, Destroy!
²⁸Israel dwelleth in safety,{HR}The fountain of Jacob on a land of corn and new wine;{HR}His heavens also drop down dew.
²⁹Happy thou, O Israel: who is like thee,{HR}O people saved by Jehovah, the shield of thy help,{HR}And who is the sword of thy excellency!{HR}And thy enemies shall lie to thee;{HR}And thou shalt tread on their high places. (Deut. 33:1‑29)

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1 Chron. 2:1‑2• ¹These are the sons, of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun,
²Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. (1 Chron. 2:1‑2)

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1 Chron. 12:23‑40• ²³And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Jehovah.
²⁴The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred ready armed to the war.
²⁵{i}Of the children of Simeon,{/i} mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
²⁶{i}Of the children of Levi{/i}, four thousand and six hundred.
²⁷And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
²⁸and Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
²⁹And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand; for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
³⁰And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
³¹And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
³²And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
³³Of Zebulun such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, {i}fifty thousand,{/i} which could keep rank. They were not of double heart.
³⁴And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
³⁵And of the Danites expert in war twenty-eight thousand and six hundred.
³⁶And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
³⁷And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
³⁸All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
³⁹And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brethren had prepared for them.
⁴⁰{i}and those too that were near them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen; provisions of meal, fig-cakes and raisin-cakes, and wine and oil, and oxen and sheep, abundantly; for there was joy in Israel.{/i} (1 Chron. 12:23‑40)

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1 Chron. 27:16‑22• ¹⁶{i}And over the tribes of Israel were: for the Reubenites Eliezer the son of Zichri was the prince; for the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah;{/i}
¹⁷{i}for the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; for Aaron, Zadok;{/i}
¹⁸{i}for Judah, Elihu of the brethren of David; for Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;{/i}
¹⁹{i}for Zebulun, Jishmaiah the son of Obadiah; for Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel;{/i}
²⁰{i}for the children of Ephraim, Hosea the son of Azaziah; for the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;{/i}
²¹{i}for the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Jiddo the son of Zechariah; for Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;{/i}
²²{i}for Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.{/i} (1 Chron. 27:16‑22)

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Acts 7:8• ⁸And he gave him a covenant of circumcision, and thus he begat Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac, Jacob; and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs. (Acts 7:8)

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Rev. 21:14• ¹⁴And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Rev. 21:14)

J. N. Darby Translation

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 of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

W. Kelly Translation

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 of [it]. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: