9. Then God appeared once more to Jacob after he came back from Paddan Aram, and he blessed him.
10. God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. You will no longer be called Jacob, but your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.
11. God also said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fertile, and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will come from you.
12. I will give you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac. I will also give this land to your descendants.”
13. Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him.
14. So Jacob set up a memorial, a stone marker, to mark the place where God had spoken with him. He poured a wine offering and olive oil on it.
15. Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel [House of God].
16. Then they moved on from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor and was having severe labor pains.
17. During one of her pains, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid! You’re having another son!”
18. Rachel was dying. As she took her last breath, she named her son Benoni [Son of My Sorrow], but his father named him Benjamin [Son of My Right Hand].
19. Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
20. Then Jacob set up a stone as a marker for her grave. The same marker is at Rachel’s grave today.
21. Israel moved on again and put up his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
22. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.Jacob had 12 sons.