⁹God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him. ¹⁰God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel.”^q So he named him Israel. ¹¹God also said to him, “I am God Almighty.^r Be fruitful and multiply.^s A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you,^t and kings will descend from you.^D^u ¹²I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac.^v And I will give the land to your future descendants.” ¹³Then God withdrew^E^w from him at the place where he had spoken to him.

¹⁴Jacob set up a marker at the place where he had spoken to him—a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.^x ¹⁵Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

RACHEL’S DEATH

¹⁶They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult. ¹⁷During her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have another son.”^y ¹⁸With her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni,^F but his father called him Benjamin.^G ¹⁹So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem^z).

Read in Logos

Genesis 35:10: And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel.

Footnotes

D will come from your loins
E went up
F Son of My Sorrow
G Son of the Right Hand

Cross references

q Gn 17:5; 32:28
r Gn 17:1; 28:3; Ex 6:3
s Gn 9:1,7
t Gn 48:4
u Gn 17:6,16; 36:31
v Gn 12:7; 13:15; 26:3–4; 28:13; Ex 32:13
w Gn 17:22; 18:33
x Gn 28:18–19; 31:45
y Gn 30:24
z Mc 5:2; Mt 2:18