Genesis 35

¹God said to Jacob , Arise , go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau .

²So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you and 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 who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone .

⁴So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had , and the rings that were in their ears . Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem .

⁵And 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 .

⁶And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel ), which is in the land of Canaan , he and all the people who were with him,

⁷and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel , because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother .

⁸And Deborah , Rebekah’s nurse , died , and she was buried under an oak below Bethel . So he called its name Allon-bacuth .

⁹God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram , and blessed him.

¹⁰And God said to him, Your name is Jacob ; no longer shall your name be called Jacob , but Israel shall be your name . So he called his name Israel .

¹¹And God said to him, I am God Almighty : be fruitful and multiply . A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body .

¹²The 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 went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.

¹⁴And Jacob 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 Bethel .

¹⁶Then they journeyed from Bethel . When they were still some distance 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 you have another son .

¹⁸And as her soul was departing (for she was dying ), she called his name Ben-oni ; but his father called him Benjamin .

¹⁹So Rachel died , and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem ),

²⁰and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb . It is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb , which is there to this day .

²¹Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder .

²²While Israel lived in that land , Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine . And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve .

²³The sons of Leah : 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 .

²⁶The sons of Zilpah , Leah’s servant : Gad and Asher . These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram .

²⁷And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre , or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron ), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned .

²⁸Now the days of Isaac were 180 years .

²⁹And Isaac breathed his last , and he died and was gathered to his people , old and full of days . And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.