Genesis - 35

1 - And God said unto Jacob - , Arise, go up to Bethel - , and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau - thy brother.

2 - Then Jacob - said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

3 - And let us arise, and go up to Bethel - ; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

4 - And they gave unto Jacob - all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob - hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

5 - And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob - .

6 - So Jacob - came to Luz - , which is in the land of Canaan - , that is, Bethel - , he and all the people that were with him.

7 - And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel - : because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

8 - But Deborah - Rebekah - 's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel - under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth - .

9 - And God appeared unto Jacob - again, when he came out of Padanaram - , and blessed him.

10 - And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob - : thy name shall not be called any more Jacob - , but Israel - shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel - .

11 - And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

12 - And the land which I gave Abraham - and Isaac - , to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

13 - And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

14 - And Jacob - set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

15 - And Jacob - called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel - .

16 - And they journeyed from Bethel - ; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath - : and Rachel - travailed, and she had hard labour.

17 - And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

18 - And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni - : but his father called him Benjamin - .

19 - And Rachel - died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath - , which is Bethlehem - .

20 - And Jacob - set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel - 's grave unto this day.

21 - And Israel - journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar - .

22 - And it came to pass, when Israel - dwelt in that land, that Reuben - went and lay with Bilhah - his father's concubine: and Israel - heard it. Now the sons of Jacob - were twelve:

23 - The sons of Leah - ; Reuben - , Jacob - 's firstborn, and Simeon - , and Levi - , and Judah - , and Issachar - , and Zebulun - :

24 - The sons of Rachel - ; Joseph - , and Benjamin - :

25 - And the sons of Bilhah - , Rachel - 's handmaid; Dan - , and Naphtali - :

26 - And the sons of Zilpah - , Leah - 's handmaid; Gad - , and Asher - : these are the sons of Jacob - , which were born to him in Padanaram - .

27 - And Jacob - came unto Isaac - his father unto Mamre - , unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron - - , where Abraham - and Isaac - sojourned.

28 - And the days of Isaac - were an hundred and fourscore years.

29 - And Isaac - gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau - and Jacob - buried him.