Genesis 35
1THEN God said to Jacob, arise and go to the place Bethel and dwell there. And erect there an altar to the God who appeared to thee, when thou wast fleeing from the face of thy brother Esau.
2Thereupon Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods which are with you and purify yourselves and change your garments;
3and let us arise and go to Bethel and build there an altar to the God Who hearkened to me in a day of distress—Who was with me and preserved me in the way in which I went. So they gave Jacob the strange gods, which were in their hands and the ear rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them in the pine grove, which was in the country of the Sekimites and destroyed them even to this day.
5Then Israel removed from the country of the Sekimites; and a terror of God was on all the cities around them, so that they did not pursue the children of Israel.
6And when Jacob came to Louza which is in the land of Chanaan, the same is Baithel, he and all the people who were with him,
7he built there an altar, and called the name of the place Baithel; because God appeared to him there, when he was fleeing from the face of his brother Esau.
8And Debbora the nurse of Rebekka, died and was buried under the Oak below Baithel. So Jacob called its name Oak of mourning.
9And God appeared to Jacob again at Louza after he came from Syrian Mesopotamia, and God blessed him
10and God said to him, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob; but Israel shall be thy name. So he called his name Israel.
11And God said to him, I am thy God. Increase and multiply. Of thee shall be nations and collections of nations; and kings shall spring from thy loins.
12And this land, which I gave to Abraham and Isaak, I have given to thee. To thee it shall belong: and to thy seed after thee I will give this land.
13And when God ascended from him—from the place where He had spoken with him,
14Jacob set up a pillar—a stone pillar in the place where God spoke to him; and he made a libation thereon and poured oil upon it.
15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Baithel [House of God].
16And Jacob removed from Baithel and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader. And when he was near Chabratha on the way to Ephratha, Rachel was taken in labour and had a hard delivery.
17And when she was in the sharp pangs of child birth, the midwife said to her, Courage; for this also is a son for thee.
18And just as she was departing (for she died) she called his name Son of my sorrow; but his father called his name Benjamin [son of strength].
19And Rachel died and was buried in the race ground of Ephratha, which is Bethlehem.
20And Jacob erected a pillar over her grave. The same is the pillar of Rachel’s grave even to this day.
21And while Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went and lay with Balla the concubine of his father Jacob, and Israel heard of it, and it appeared evil in his sight.
22Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
23The sons of Leia, Reuben, Jacob’s first-born, Symeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Zabulon:
24and the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin;
25and the sons of Balla, Rachel’s handmaid, Dan and Nephthalim:
26and the sons of Zelpha, Leia’s handmaid, Gad and Aser. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Syrian Mesopotamia.
27Then Jacob went to his father Isaak, to Mambre, a city of the plain, the same is Chebron in the land of Chanaan, where Abraham and Isaak had sojourned.
28Now the days which Isaak lived were one hundred and eighty years.
29And Isaak, fainting away, died and was added to his race being an old man and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.