Genesis 35

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

²And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him: Remove the foreign gods that are in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your garments.

³Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me on the way that I went.

⁴And they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak that was near Shechem.

⁵And they set out, and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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

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

⁸And Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak, and its name was called Allon-bacuth.

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

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

¹¹And God said to him: I am El Shaddai — be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assembly of nations shall be from you, and kings shall come out from your loins.

¹²And the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac — to you I will give it, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.

¹³And 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. And he poured out on it a drink offering, and poured oil on it.

¹⁵And Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

¹⁶And they set out from Bethel, and there was still a stretch of land to come to Ephrathah, and Rachel gave birth, and her labor was hard.

¹⁷And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, Do not fear, for this one also is a son for you.

¹⁸And it was, as her soul was departing — for she died — and she called his name Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

¹⁹And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrathah, that is, Bethlehem.

²⁰And Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb — it is the pillar of Rachel's tomb to this day.

²¹And Israel set out, and he pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

²²And it came about, while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah the concubine of his father, and Israel heard. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

²³The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

²⁴The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁵And the sons of Bilhah, the maidservant of Rachel: Dan and Naphtali.

²⁶And the sons of Zilpah, the maidservant of Leah: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

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

²⁸And the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.

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