Genesis 35

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1. 1God told Jacob, "Get up, go to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau."
2. 2Jacob then told everyone in his household, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, purify yourselves, and put on fresh clothes."
3. 3"Then we will go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who responded to me during my time of trouble and who stayed with me throughout my journey."
4. 4So they handed over to Jacob all the foreign gods they possessed, along with the earrings from their ears. Jacob buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.
5. 5As they set out, a great fear from God fell on the surrounding towns, so that no one chased after Jacob's sons.
6. 6Jacob arrived at Luz, also known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan, along with everyone who was with him.
7. 7He constructed an altar there and named the place Elbethel, because that was where God had appeared to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8. 8Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under an oak tree, which was called Allonbachuth.
9. 9God appeared to Jacob once more after he had returned from Padanaram and blessed him.
10. 10God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel." So God named him Israel.
11. 11God also said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a group of nations will descend from you, and kings will come from your body."
12. 12"The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and I will also give it to your descendants after you."
13. 13Then God ascended from him at the spot where he had spoken with him.
14. 14Jacob erected a stone pillar at the location where God had talked with him. He poured out a drink offering on it and also poured oil on it.
15. 15Jacob named the place where God had spoken to him Bethel.
16. 16They departed from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and her delivery was very difficult.
17. 17During her painful labor, the midwife told her, "Don't be afraid, because you are having another son."
18. 18As her soul was leaving her — for she was dying — she named the boy Benoni. However, his father gave him the name Benjamin.
19. 19Rachel died and was buried along the road to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20. 20Jacob set up a pillar over her grave, and it remains the marker of Rachel's grave to this day.
21. 21Israel continued his journey and pitched his tent past the tower of Edar.
22. 22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben slept with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
23. 23Leah's sons were Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24. 24Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin.
25. 25The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
26. 26The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant, were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons, who were born to him in Padanaram.
27. 27Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath Arbah (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
28. 28Isaac lived to be a hundred and eighty years old.
29. 29Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.