Sáng-thế Ký 35
Kinh Thánh Bản Truyền Thống ⇄ NET Bible
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.”
ÉtudeThanh tẩy trước khi thờ phượng — Gia-cốp kêu gọi cả nhà mình vứt bỏ các tượng thần ngoại bang, tắm rửa và thay áo. Sự thanh tẩy nghi thức này chuẩn bị họ đến gặp Đức Chúa Trời tại Bê-tên—một lời nhắc nhở rằng đến gần Ngài đòi hỏi phải quay lưng khỏi các thần khác và những dấu hiệu bên ngoài của sự thanh sạch trong lòng.So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
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.”
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem
and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
(Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named Oak of Weeping.)
God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.
ÉtudeXác nhận lại sự đổi tên — Đức Chúa Trời lặp lại sự đổi tên lần đầu tiên được ban trong Sáng-thế Ký 32:28. Gia-cốp ('kẻ thế vị') trở thành Y-sơ-ra-ên ('người chiến đấu với Đức Chúa Trời'). Sự xác nhận này đóng ấn giao ước và đánh dấu một danh tính mới cho gia đình.(GEN 32:28)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.
ÉtudeĐức Chúa Trời toàn năng — Đức Chúa Trời bày tỏ chính Ngài là Đức Chúa Trời toàn năng, 'Đức Chúa Trời Toàn Năng,' cùng một danh hiệu đã dùng trong giao ước với Áp-ra-ham (Sáng-thế Ký 17:1). Lời hứa về các dân tộc và các vua lặp lại phước lành trước đó, liên kết dòng dõi Gia-cốp với những lời hứa lớn lao.(GEN 17:1)Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!
The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”
Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.
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.
Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.
They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor – and her labor was hard.
When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.”
ÉtudeBê-nô-ni thành Bên-gia-min — Ra-chên, đang hấp hối, đặt tên con trai mình là Bê-nô-ni ('con trai của nỗi buồn tôi'). Gia-cốp đổi tên nó thành Bên-gia-min ('con trai của tay phải'), biến nỗi đau buồn thành vinh dự. Sự đổi tên phản ánh hy vọng và tầm quan trọng tương lai của đứa trẻ.With her dying breath, she named him Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.
Then Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
ÉtudeTội của Ru-bên — Ru-bên nằm cùng Bi-la, vợ lẽ của cha mình—một sự ô nhục nghiêm trọng. Hành động này sau đó khiến ông mất quyền trưởng nam (Sáng-thế Ký 49:3-4). Nó cũng báo trước sự xung đột trong gia đình và nhu cầu cần ân điển của Đức Chúa Trời.While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, as well as Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
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.
So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Isaac lived to be 180 years old.
Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. He died an old man who had lived a full life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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