Genesis 35

VIN(i) 1 And God said to Jacob, Rise up, go to Bethel and live there. And make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled before your brother Esau. 2 Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are in your midst and purify yourselves and change your garments. 3 "After that let us go to Bethel. I will make an altar there to God, who answered me when I was troubled and who has been with me wherever I have gone." 4 And they give Yaaqov all the strange elohim in their hand and all their noserings in their ears; and Yaaqov buries them under the oak by Shechem: 5 And they pulled up stakes . And the terror of God was on the cities all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 6 And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-Beth-el,—because, there, God revealed himself unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother, 8 And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon- bacuth. 9 Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said, 10 God said to him: "Your name is Jacob. You shall no longer be called Jacob. Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel. 11 God said to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body. 12 "The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. I will give the land to your descendants after you." 13 Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him. 14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him, Beth-el. 16 Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. And she had hard labor. 17 And when her labor was the most difficult the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid for you have another son." 18 As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin. 19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 And Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel's grave until today. 21 Israel moved on again. He pitched his tent by the tower of Eder. 22 While Israel lived in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father's concubine Bilhah. Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons. 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 25 The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali. 26 The sons of Zilpah, the female servant of Leah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram. 27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living. 28 Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old. 29 And Isaac breathed his last, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.