Genesis 35 in Pidgin: God send Jacob go Bethel, Rachel die as she born Benjamin, Reuben sin, and Isaac die for old age peacefully.
📖 Genesis 35:1–29 in Pidgin English
1. God tell Jacob, “Stand up, go Bethel. Stay there and build altar for me, the God wey show face to you when you dey run from Esau.”
2. Jacob tell him household and all the people wey dey with am say, “Make una throw away all foreign gods from una body, purify una selves and change clothes.”
3. “We go go Bethel. There I go build altar for God wey hear me when I dey suffer and follow me everywhere I go.”
4. So dem give Jacob all di foreign gods and earrings wey dey their ears. Jacob bury everything under di oak tree near Shechem.
5. As dem dey travel, God put fear for di heart of all di towns around dem so nobody chase Jacob family.
6. Jacob and all di people reach Luz (wey be Bethel) for Canaan land.
7. He build altar there and call di place El-Bethel, because na there God appear to am when he dey run from him brother.
8. Deborah, Rebekah nurse, die and dem bury her under oak tree near Bethel. Dem call di place Allon-Bacuth (Tree of Tears).
9. God appear to Jacob again after he return from Paddan-Aram and bless am.
10. God say, “Your name na Jacob, but now your name go be Israel.” So God call him Israel.
11. God talk again, “I be God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. Nations and kings go come from your body.”
12. “I go give you and your descendants di land wey I give Abraham and Isaac.”
13. After God finish talk, He disappear from Jacob.
14. Jacob set up pillar for di place where God talk to am, pour drink offering and oil on top.
15. Jacob call that place Bethel (House of God).
16. As dem waka from Bethel, Rachel begin labour, and na hard labour.
17. As di birth pain strong well, di midwife say, “No fear, you don born another boy.”
18. As Rachel dey die, she call di pikin Ben-Oni (Son of My Sorrow), but Jacob change am to Benjamin (Son of My Right Hand).
19. Rachel die and dem bury her for road to Ephrath (Bethlehem).
20. Jacob put pillar for her grave till today.
21. Israel move again and pitch tent beyond Migdal Eder.
22. One time, Reuben sleep with Bilhah, wey be Jacob concubine, and Jacob hear am.
Jacob get twelve sons:
23. Leah born Reuben (first born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24. Rachel born Joseph and Benjamin.
25. Bilhah (Rachel servant) born Dan and Naphtali.
26. Zilpah (Leah servant) born Gad and Asher. All these pikin Jacob born for Paddan-Aram.
27. Jacob go meet him papa Isaac for Mamre near Kiriath Arba (Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac live.
28. Isaac live reach 180 years.
29. Isaac die old and satisfied, dem bury am. Him sons Esau and Jacob bury am together.
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