Genesis 35:9–19

Jacob Is Renamed Israel

⁹Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He ^ablessed him.

^10aAnd God said to him,

“Your name is Jacob;

Your name shall no longer be called Jacob,

But Israel shall be your name.”

Thus He called his name Israel.

¹¹God also said to him,

“I am ^1aGod Almighty;

^bBe fruitful and multiply;

A nation and an ^cassembly of nations shall ²come from you,

And ^dkings shall ³come forth from your loins.

¹²“^aAnd the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,

I will give it to you,

And I will give the land to your seed after you.”

¹³Then ^aGod went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.

¹⁴And Jacob set up ^aa pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

¹⁵So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, ^1aBethel.

¹⁶Then they journeyed from Bethel; and there was still some distance to go to ^aEphrath, and Rachel gave birth, and she ¹suffered severely in her labor.

¹⁷Now it happened that when she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now ^ayou have another son.”

¹⁸Now it happened as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him ¹Ben-oni; but his father called him ²Benjamin.

¹⁹So ^aRachel died and was buried on the way to ^bEphrath (that is, Bethlehem).