8. Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried beneath Bethel under the oak. So it was called Allon Bakuth.
9. God appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Paddan Aram and blessed him.
10. God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be called Jacob any more, but Israel shall be your name.” So He called his name Israel.
11. God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings shall come forth from you.
12. The land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your descendants after you I will give the land.”
13. Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.
14. Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it too.
15. So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
16. They journeyed from Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had a difficult labor.
17. When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear. You will have this son also.”