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35:1 Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau." 35:2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments; 35:3 and let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me wherever I have gone." 35:4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem. 35:5 As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 35:7 And he built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him, when he fled from his brother. 35:8 Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth. 35:9 Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him. 35:10 And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel. 35:11 God also said to him, "I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come forth from you. 35:12 "And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you." 35:13 Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him. 35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a libation on it; he also poured oil on it. 35:15 So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel. 35:16 Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe labor. 35:17 And it came about when she was in severe labor that the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for now you have [another] son." 35:18 And it came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. 35:19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 35:20 And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. 35:21 Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 35:22 And it came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard [of it]. Now there were twelve sons of Jacob-- 35:23 the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun; 35:24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; 35:25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali; 35:26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram. 35:27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. 35:28 Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years. 35:29 And Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.