Genesis 35:16-29

New American Standard Bible

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

The Sons of Israel

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

Now there were twelve sons of Jacob— ^23 (H)the sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; ^24 (I)the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin; ²⁵ and ^(J)the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s female slave, were Dan and Naphtali; ²⁶ and ^(K)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.

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

²⁸ Now the days of Isaac were ^(N)180 years. ²⁹ Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was ^(O)gathered to his people, an ^(P)old man ^[e]of ripe age; and ^(Q)his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.