Genesis 35:9–19

⁹God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.^{* 10}God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall you be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he was called Israel.^{* 11}God said to him, “I am God Almighty:^x be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.^{* 12}The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”^{* 13}Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him.^{* 14}Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.^{* 15}So Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.^*

The Birth of Benjamin and the Death of Rachel

¹⁶Then they journeyed from Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor. ¹⁷When she was in her hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for now you have another son.”^{* 18}As her soul was departing, for she was dying, she named him Ben-oni,^y but his father called him Benjamin.^{z 19}And Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem,^*