God Blesses and Renames Jacob
Gen 35:1 And God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and live there. And make an altar there to God, Who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
Gen 35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, “Put away the strange gods among you, and be clean, and change your garments.
Gen 35:3 And let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, Who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.”
Gen 35:4 And they gave all the strange gods which were in their hands to Jacob, and the earrings in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Gen 35:5 And they moved. And the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Gen 35:6 And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people with him.
Gen 35:7 And he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because God appeared to him there when he fled from the face of his brother.
Gen 35:8 But Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under an oak. And the name of it was called Oak of Weeping.
Gen 35:9 And God appeared to Jacob again after he came out of Padan Aram and blessed him.
Gen 35:10 And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be called Jacob any more, but Israel shall be your name.” And He called his name Israel.
Gen 35:11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall be from you, and kings shall come out of your loins.
Gen 35:12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your seed after you I will give the land.”
Gen 35:13 And God went up from him in the place where He talked with him.
Gen 35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone. And he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.
Gen 35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac
Gen 35:16 And they set out from Bethel. And when there was only a short distance yet to go to Ephrath, Rachel travailed, and she had great difficulty in giving birth.
Gen 35:17 And it came to pass when she was having great difficulty giving birth, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, you shall have this son also.”
Gen 35:18 And it came to pass as her soul was departing—for she died—that she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.
Gen 35:19 And Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
Gen 35:20 And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave. That is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
Gen 35:21 And Israel moved and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
Gen 35:22 And it came to pass when Israel lived in that land that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Gen 35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.
Gen 35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen 35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid: Dan and Naphtali.
Gen 35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob born to him in Padan Aram.
Gen 35:27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac, to Mamre, to the city of Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
Gen 35:28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
Gen 35:29 And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.