Genesis 35:9-29 ▼

9 God appeared again to Jacob after he had arrived from Paddan-aram and blessed him.

10 Then God told him, |Your name is Jacob. No longer are you to be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.| So God called his name Israel

11 and also told him, |I am God Almighty. You are to be fruitful and multiply. You will become a nation— in fact, an assembly of nations! Kings will come from you— they'll emerge from your own loins!

12 Now as for the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I'm giving it to you and to your descendants who come after you. I'm giving the land to you!|

13 After this, God ascended from the place where he had been speaking to him.

14 Jacob erected a pillar of stone at that very place where God had spoken to him. He poured a drink offering over it, anointed it with oil,

15 and named the place where God had spoken to him Beth-el.

16 Later, they set out from Beth-el. While still a long way from Ephrathah, Rachel started to have trouble giving birth.

17 While she was suffering due to her difficult labor, the midwife told her, |Don't fear! You're going to have another son.|

18 Just before she died, Rachel called her son's name Ben-oni, but his father Jacob named him Benjamin.

19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrathah, also known as Bethlehem.

20 Jacob erected a pillar over her grave, and that pillar stands over Rachel's grave to this day.

21 Jacob continued his travels, and eventually pitched his tent facing Migdal Eder.

22 But while Israel lived in that land, Reuben went inside his father's tent and had sexual relations with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons.

23 Leah's sons were Reuben (Jacob's first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

24 Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin.

25 Rachel's servant Bilhah's sons were Dan and Naphtali.

26 Leah's servant Zilpah's sons were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born to him while he lived in Paddan-aram.

27 So Jacob reached his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (also known as Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

28 Isaac had lived a total of 180 years

29 when he died and joined his ancestors at a ripe old age. Then his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.