Genesis35

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(Gen 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.
(Gen 35:2) 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:
(Gen 35:3) 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.
(Gen 35:4) 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.
(Gen 35:5) 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.
(Gen 35:6) So Jacob came to Luz, which {is} in the land of Canaan, that {is}, Bethel, he and all the people that {were} with him.
(Gen 35:7) 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.
(Gen 35:8) But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
(Gen 35:9) And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
(Gen 35:10) 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.
(Gen 35:11) 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;
(Gen 35:12) 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.
(Gen 35:13) And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
(Gen 35:14) 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.
(Gen 35:15) And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
(Gen 35:16) And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
(Gen 35:17) 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.
(Gen 35:18) 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.
(Gen 35:19) And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which {is} Bethlehem.
(Gen 35:20) And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that {is} the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
(Gen 35:21) And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
(Gen 35:22) 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:
(Gen 35:23) The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
(Gen 35:24) The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
(Gen 35:25) And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
(Gen 35:26) And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these {are} the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
(Gen 35:27) And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which {is} Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
(Gen 35:28) And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
(Gen 35:29) 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.
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