24:9 and when they returned from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven ¹  and to all the rest. 24:10 Now it was Mary Magdalene, ²  Joanna, ³  Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles. 24:11 But these words seemed like pure nonsense ⁴  to them, and they did not believe them.

33:1 Jacob looked up ¹  and saw that Esau was coming ²  along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants. 33:2 He put the servants and their children in front, with Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph behind them. ³  33:3 But Jacob ⁴  himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached ⁵  his brother. 33:4 But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept. 33:5 When Esau ⁶  looked up ⁷  and saw the women and the children, he asked, “Who are these people with you?” Jacob ⁸  replied, “The children whom God has graciously given ⁹  your servant.” 33:6 The female servants came forward with their children and bowed down. ¹⁰  33:7 Then Leah came forward with her children and they bowed down. Finally Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed down.

33:8 Esau ¹¹  then asked, “What did you intend ¹²  by sending all these herds to meet me?” ¹³  Jacob ¹⁴  replied, “To find favor in your sight, my lord.” 33:9 But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.” 33:10 “No, please take them,” Jacob said. ¹⁵  “If I have found favor in your sight, accept ¹⁶  my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, ¹⁷  it is as if I have seen the face of God. ¹⁸  33:11 Please take my present ¹⁹  that was brought to you, for God has been generous ²⁰  to me and I have all I need.” ²¹  When Jacob urged him, he took it. ²² 

33:12 Then Esau ²³  said, “Let’s be on our way! ²⁴  I will go in front of you.” 33:13 But Jacob ²⁵  said to him, “My lord knows that the children are young, ²⁶  and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. ²⁷  If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die. 33:14 Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children, ²⁸  until I come to my lord at Seir.”

33:15 So Esau said, “Let me leave some of my men with you.” ²⁹  “Why do that?” Jacob replied. ³⁰  “My lord has already been kind enough to me.” ³¹ 

33:16 So that same day Esau made his way back ³²  to Seir. 33:17 But ³³  Jacob traveled to Succoth ³⁴  where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called ³⁵  Succoth. ³⁶ 

33:18 After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near ³⁷  the city. 33:19 Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it ³⁸  from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money. ³⁹  33:20 There he set up an altar and called it “The God of Israel is God.” ⁴⁰ 

34:1 Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet ⁴¹  the young women ⁴²  of the land. 34:2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, ⁴³  and sexually assaulted her. ⁴⁴  34:3 Then he became very attached ⁴⁵  to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her. ⁴⁶  34:4 Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Acquire this young girl as my wife.” ⁴⁷  34:5 When ⁴⁸  Jacob heard that Shechem ⁴⁹  had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent ⁵⁰  until they came in.

34:6 Then Shechem’s father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah. ⁵¹  34:7 Now Jacob’s sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. ⁵²  They ⁵³  were offended ⁵⁴  and very angry because Shechem ⁵⁵  had disgraced Israel ⁵⁶  by sexually assaulting ⁵⁷  Jacob’s daughter, a crime that should not be committed. ⁵⁸ 

34:8 But Hamor made this appeal to them: “My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. ⁵⁹  Please give her to him as his wife. 34:9 Intermarry with us. ⁶⁰  Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves. ⁶¹  34:10 You may live ⁶²  among us, and the land will be open to you. ⁶³  Live in it, travel freely in it, ⁶⁴  and acquire property in it.”

34:11 Then Shechem said to Dinah’s ⁶⁵  father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me ⁶⁶  I’ll give. ⁶⁷  34:12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, ⁶⁸  and I’ll give ⁶⁹  whatever you ask ⁷⁰  of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

34:13 Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem ⁷¹  had violated their sister Dinah. 34:14 They said to them, “We cannot give ⁷²  our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace ⁷³  to us. 34:15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become ⁷⁴  like us by circumcising ⁷⁵  all your males. 34:16 Then we will give ⁷⁶  you our daughters to marry, ⁷⁷  and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people. 34:17 But if you do not agree to our terms ⁷⁸  by being circumcised, then we will take ⁷⁹  our sister ⁸⁰  and depart.”

34:18 Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem. ⁸¹  34:19 The young man did not delay in doing what they asked ⁸²  because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah ⁸³  badly. (Now he was more important ⁸⁴  than anyone in his father’s household.) ⁸⁵  34:20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate ⁸⁶  of their city and spoke to the men of their city, 34:21 “These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough ⁸⁷  for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry. ⁸⁸  34:22 Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand ⁸⁹  that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised. 34:23 If we do so, ⁹⁰  won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

34:24 All the men who assembled at the city gate ⁹¹  agreed with ⁹²  Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate ⁹³  was circumcised. 34:25 In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword ⁹⁴  and went to the unsuspecting city ⁹⁵  and slaughtered every male. 34:26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left. 34:27 Jacob’s sons killed them ⁹⁶  and looted the city because their sister had been violated. ⁹⁷  34:28 They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields. ⁹⁸  34:29 They captured as plunder ⁹⁹  all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought ruin ¹⁰⁰  on me by making me a foul odor ¹⁰¹  among the inhabitants of the land – among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I ¹⁰²  am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!” 34:31 But Simeon and Levi replied, ¹⁰³  “Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”

35:1 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once ¹⁰⁴  to Bethel ¹⁰⁵  and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” ¹⁰⁶  35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. ¹⁰⁷  Purify yourselves and change your clothes. ¹⁰⁸  35:3 Let us go up at once ¹⁰⁹  to Bethel. Then I will make ¹¹⁰  an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress ¹¹¹  and has been with me wherever I went.” ¹¹² 

35:4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession ¹¹³  and the rings that were in their ears. ¹¹⁴  Jacob buried them ¹¹⁵  under the oak ¹¹⁶  near Shechem 35:5 and they started on their journey. ¹¹⁷  The surrounding cities were afraid of God, ¹¹⁸  and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

35:6 Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) ¹¹⁹  in the land of Canaan. ¹²⁰  35:7 He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel ¹²¹  because there God had revealed himself ¹²²  to him when he was fleeing from his brother. 35:8 (Deborah, ¹²³  Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named ¹²⁴  Oak of Weeping.) ¹²⁵ 

35:9 God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him. 35:10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel. ¹²⁶  35:11 Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. ¹²⁷  Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants! ¹²⁸  35:12 The land I gave ¹²⁹  to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants ¹³⁰  I will also give this land.” 35:13 Then God went up from the place ¹³¹  where he spoke with him. 35:14 So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. ¹³²  He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it. ¹³³  35:15 Jacob named the place ¹³⁴  where God spoke with him Bethel. ¹³⁵ 

35:16 They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, ¹³⁶  Rachel went into labor ¹³⁷  – and her labor was hard. 35:17 When her labor was at its hardest, ¹³⁸  the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.” ¹³⁹  35:18 With her dying breath, ¹⁴⁰  she named him Ben-Oni. ¹⁴¹  But his father called him Benjamin instead. ¹⁴²  35:19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). ¹⁴³  35:20 Jacob set up a marker ¹⁴⁴  over her grave; it is ¹⁴⁵  the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.

35:21 Then Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. ¹⁴⁶  35:22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with ¹⁴⁷  Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons:

35:23 The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, as well as Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

35:24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

35:25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, were Dan and Naphtali.

35:26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher.

These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

35:27 So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, ¹⁴⁸  to Kiriath Arba ¹⁴⁹  (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. ¹⁵⁰  35:28 Isaac lived to be 180 years old. ¹⁵¹  35:29 Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. ¹⁵²  He died an old man who had lived a full life. ¹⁵³  His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.