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Genesis 35:7-23 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

7. He built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.

8. Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.

9. Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.

10. God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel.

11. God also said to him, "I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come forth from you.

12. "The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you."

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; he also poured oil on it.

15. So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.

16. Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe labor.

17. When she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for now you have another son."

18. It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

19. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

20. Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

21. Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

22. It came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now there were twelve sons of Jacob-

23. the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

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