Genesis 35:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.

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  • 1 Sam 10:2 : 2 When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you,‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! He is asking,“What should I do about my son?”’
  • 2 Sam 18:17-18 : 17 They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes. 18 Prior to this Absalom had set up a monument and dedicated it to himself in the King’s Valley, reasoning“I have no son who will carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom’s Memorial.
  • Gen 35:9 : 9 God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.
  • Gen 35:14 : 14 So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.

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  • 19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath(that is, Bethlehem).

  • Gen 31:45-48
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    45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar.

    46 Then he said to his relatives,“Gather stones.” So they brought stones and put them in a pile. They ate there by the pile of stones.

    47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

    48 Laban said,“This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement today.” That is why it was called Galeed.

  • 7 But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died– to my sorrow– in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath”(that is, Bethlehem).

  • Gen 35:14-16
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    14 So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.

    15 Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

    16 They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor– and her labor was hard.

  • 21 Then Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.

  • 18 Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it.

  • Gen 31:51-52
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    51 “Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.

    52 “This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.

  • Gen 29:9-12
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    9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

    10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

    11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.

    12 When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

  • 34 (Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

  • Gen 29:28-29
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    28 Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29 (Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)

  • Gen 30:1-3
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    1 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob,“Give me children or I’ll die!”

    2 Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed,“Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

    3 She replied,“Here is my servant Bilhah! Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

  • 31 There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah.

  • 11 He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

  • 4 So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

  • 19 While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

  • 32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

  • 14 Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • 3 Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”

  • 22 Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.

  • 18 “A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were gone.”

  • 20 There he set up an altar and called it“The God of Israel is God.”

  • 1 The Return to Bethel Then God said to Jacob,“Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

  • 25 The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.