GENESIS 35 [†]God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to  b Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you  c when you fled from your brother Esau.” 2[†]So Jacob said to his  d household and to all who were with him, “Put away  e the foreign gods that are among you and  f purify yourselves and change your garments. 3Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God  g who answers me in the day of my distress and  h has been with me wherever I have gone.” 4[†]So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under  i the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

5[†]And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 6[†]And Jacob came to  j Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him, 7[†]and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, [1] because  k there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother. 8[†]And  l Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth. [2]

9[†]God appeared [3] to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. 10[^][†]And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob;  m no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but  n Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel. 11[†]And God said to him,  o “I am God Almighty: [4] be  p fruitful and multiply.  q A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body. [5] 12 r The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.” 13Then God  s went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him. 14[†]And Jacob  t set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it. 15So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him  u Bethel.

16[†]Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance [6] from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor. 17And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for  v you have another son.” 18[†]And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; [7]  w but his father called him Benjamin. [8] 19So  x Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to  y Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), 20and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is  z the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day. 21[†]Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

22[†]While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and  a lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it.

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. 23The sons of Leah:  b Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 25The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant: Dan and Naphtali. 26[†]The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

27[†]And Jacob came to his father Isaac at  c Mamre, or  d Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. 28[†]Now the days of Isaac were 180 years. 29And Isaac breathed his last, and he died  e and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And  f his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.