Genesis 35:9–19

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. ^p

So He named him Israel. ¹¹God also said to him:

I am God Almighty. ^q

Be fruitful and multiply. ^r

A nation, indeed an assembly of nations,

will come from you, ^s

and kings will descend from you. ^tu

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 ^wxfrom 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 anointed it with oil. ^y15Jacob 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.” ^z18With her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni, ^abut his father called him Benjamin. ^b19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem ^c).