Genesis 35:7-29
35:7 He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel
because there God had revealed himself
to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
35:8 (Deborah,
Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named
Oak of Weeping.)
35:9 God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.
35:10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.
35:11 Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!
35:12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”
35:13 Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.
35:14 So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.
35:15 Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.
35:16 They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor – and her labor was hard.
35:17 When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.”
35:18 With her dying breath, she named him Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.
35:19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
35:20 Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.
35:21 Then Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
35:22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it.
Jacob had twelve sons:
35:23 The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, as well as Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
35:24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
35:25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
35:26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher.
These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
35:27 So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
35:28 Isaac lived to be 180 years old.
35:29 Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. He died an old man who had lived a full life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.