What does Genesis 35:27 mean?
Jacob and his company, including family and servants, have come from Bethel, after being called away from Shechem by God (Genesis 33:19; 35:1, 21). Their new location is the same as their family burial plot. This was acquired by Abraham when his wife Sarah died (Genesis 23:2–4). It is one of the places both Abraham (Genesis 13:18) and Isaac had lived in the Promised Land of Canaan.No further details are given other than that Jacob has come to the place where his father still lived. We're not sure if Jacob had spoken with Isaac, at all, since he fled from his brother Esau (Genesis 27:42). No mention is made of Jacob's mother, Rebekah, who most likely died in the time Jacob was gone (Genesis 49:31).