Genesis 35:9-29

New American Standard Bible

Jacob Is Named Israel

⁹Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He ^(A)blessed him. ¹⁰^(B)God said to him,

“Your name is Jacob;
^[a]You shall no longer be called Jacob,
But Israel shall be your name.”

So He called ^[b]him Israel. ¹¹God also said to him,

“I am ^[c]^(C)God Almighty;
^(D)Be fruitful and multiply;
A nation and a ^(E)multitude of nations shall ^[d]come from you,
And ^(F)kings shall ^[e]come from ^[f]you.
¹²And ^(G)the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,
I will give to you,
And I will give the land to your ^[g]descendants after you.”

¹³Then ^(H)God went up from him at the place where He had spoken with him. ¹⁴So Jacob set up ^(I)a memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him, a memorial of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. ¹⁵And Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, ^[h]^(J)Bethel.

¹⁶Then they journeyed on from Bethel; but when there was still some distance to go to ^(K)Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe difficulties in her labor. ¹⁷And when she was suffering severe difficulties in her labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for ^(L)you have another son!” ¹⁸And it came about, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him ^[i]Ben-oni; but his father called him ^[j]Benjamin. ¹⁹So ^(M)Rachel died and was buried on the way to ^(N)Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). ²⁰And Jacob set up a memorial stone over her grave; that is the ^(O)memorial stone of Rachel’s grave to this day. ²¹Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the ^[k]^(P)tower of ^[l]Eder.

The Sons of Israel

²²And it came about, while Israel was living in that land, that ^(Q)Reuben went and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Now there were twelve sons of Jacob— ²³^(R)the sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; ²⁴^(S)the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin; ²⁵and ^(T)the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s female slave, were Dan and Naphtali; ²⁶and ^(U)the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s female slave, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

²⁷Jacob came to his father Isaac at ^(V)Mamre of ^(W)Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided.

²⁸Now the days of Isaac were ^(X)180 years. ²⁹Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was ^(Y)gathered to his people, an ^(Z)old man ^[m]of ripe age; and ^(AA)his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.