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.”
18. As her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin.
19. Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20. Jacob set a pillar on her grave. It is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
21. Israel journeyed and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
22. When Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it.Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23. The sons of Leah wereReuben, Jacob’s firstborn,and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun.
24. The sons of Rachel wereJoseph and Benjamin.