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35:1  Then God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go up to Beth-El and stay there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
35:2  So Jacob said to his household and to everyone who was with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Cleanse yourselves and change your clothes.
35:3  Now let’s get up and go up to Beth-El so that I can make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me in the way that I have gone.”
35:4  So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their hand and the rings in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak tree near Shechem.
35:5  Then they journeyed, and the terror of God was on the cities that were around them, so they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
35:6  Then Jacob arrived at Luz in the land of Canaan (that is Beth-El), he and all the people who were with him.
35:7  He built an altar there and called the place El-Beth-El because God had revealed Himself to him there when he fled from the presence of his brother.
35:8  Then Rebekah’s nurse Deborah died, and was buried below Beth-El, under the oak—so it was named Oak of Weeping.
35:9  God appeared to Jacob again, after he returned from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
35:10  God said to him: “Your name was Jacob. No longer will your name be Jacob, for your name will be Israel.” So He named him Israel.
35:11  God also said to him: “I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assembly of nations will come from you. From your loins will come forth kings.
35:12  The land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac— I give it to you, and to your seed after you I will give the land.”
35:13  Then God went up from him at the place where He had spoken with him.
35:14  Jacob set up a memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him—a stone pillar—and he poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
35:15  Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Beth-El.
35:16  Then they traveled from Beth-El, and while they were still a distance from entering Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, but her labor was difficult.
35:17  While she was struggling to give birth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for this is also a son for you.”
35:18  Now as her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Ben-Oni, but his father named him Benjamin.
35:19  Then Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
35:20  Jacob set up a memorial stone over her grave. (It is the memorial stone over Rachel’s grave to this day.)
35:21  Then Israel journeyed on and set up his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
35:22  While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons.
35:23  Leah’s sons were Jacob’s firstborn Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.
35:24  Rachel’s sons were Joseph and Benjamin.
35:25  The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s female servant, were Dan and Naphtali,
35:26  and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s female servant, were Gad and Asher. These are Jacob’s sons, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
35:27  Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriat-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
35:28  Now Isaac’s days were 180 years.
35:29  Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. So his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.