Guiding Questions: Genesis 35

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This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

According to Genesis 35:1–4, Jacob’s departure from Shekhem was a result of _______ ?
And, according to Genesis 35:5, why is Jacob exempt from attack following the Shekhem killing?
Do Genesis 35:6–8 appear to parallel Genesis 35:1–3?
Does Genesis 35:10 appear to be aware of the “earlier renaming” of Jacob?
What name is used by/for Divinity in Genesis 35:11?
How does Genesis 35:14–15 dovetail with Genesis 28:17-19?
Why does Jacob (Genesis 35:18) change the name given by Rachel to her second child? Who has named all of the (other) children (Genesis 49:3)?
Is there no mourning for Rachel; and no burial in the cave of Makhpeylah? (Genesis 35:19–20)
Bilhah was Rachel’s “handmaiden” and mother of a number of Jacob’s children; what explains
Reuben’s action and Jacob’s inaction and the truncated Genesis 35:22 (note Genesis 49:4)?
In Genesis 35:29, why the positing by text of Esau before Jacob and why again, (as with Rachel) no reference to the cave of Makhpeylah?

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