After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
9. And God appeared unto Jacob. Moses, having introduced a few words on the death of Deborah, recites a second vision, by which Jacob was confirmed, after his return to Bethel. Once, in this place, God had appeared unto him, when he was on his way into Mesopotamia.
Jacob and his retinue having safely arrived at Bethel, we are here told what passed there. I. There he built an altar (Gen 35:7), and no doubt offered sacrifice upon it, perhaps the tenth of his cattle, according to his vow, I will give the tenth unto thee.
Commenting on Genesis 35:6-15
And God appeared unto Jacob again,.... At Bethel, as he had at Shechem, when he bid him go thither, Gen 35:1; or rather as he had at the brook Jabbok, where he said to him the same things as here, Gen 32:24, though Jarchi interprets it of his appearing again to him at the same place at Bethel, where he had appeared to him the...