Genesis 35:9–19

Jacob Is Named Israel

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

^10aGod said to him,

“Your name is Jacob;

¹You shall no longer be called Jacob,

But Israel shall be your name.”

Thus He called ²him Israel.

¹¹God also said to him,

“I am ^1aGod Almighty;

^bBe fruitful and multiply;

A nation and a ^ccompany of nations shall ²come from you,

And ^dkings shall come forth from ³you.

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

I will give it to you,

And I will give the land to your ¹descendants after you.”

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

¹⁴Jacob 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 when there was still some distance to go to ^aEphrath, Rachel began to give birth and she ¹suffered severe labor.

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

¹⁸It came about 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).