35 After that Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} said to Yacob: “Rise, go up to Bethʹel and dwell there, and make an altar there to the true Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'}, who appeared to you when you were running away from Eʹsau your brother.”
2 Then Yacob said to his household and to all who were with him: “Get rid of the foreign gods that are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves and change your garments, 3 and let us rise and go up to Bethʹel. There I will make an altar to the true Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'}, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” 4 So they gave Yacob all the foreign gods they had and the earrings that were in their ears, and Yacob buried them under the big tree that was close to Sheʹchem.
5 When they traveled on, the terror of Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} struck the cities around them, so they did not chase after the sons of Yacob. 6 Yacob eventually came to Luz, that is, Bethʹel, in the land of Caʹnaan, he and all the people with him. 7 There he built an altar and called the place El-bethʹel, because there the true Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} had revealed himself to him when he had run away from his brother. 8 Later Debʹo·rah, Re·bekʹah’s nurse, died and was buried at the foot of Bethʹel under an oak. So he named it Alʹlon-bacʹuth.
9 Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} appeared to Yacob once again while he was coming from Padʹdan-aʹram and blessed him. 10 Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} said to him: “Your name is Yacob. Your name will no longer be Yacob, but Isra'Al will be your name.” And he began to call him Isra'Al. 11 Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} further said to him: “I am Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} Almighty. Be fruitful and become many. Nations and a congregation of nations will come from you, and kings will descend from you. 12 As for the land that I have given to Avraham and to Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.” 13 Then Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him.
14 So Yacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it. 15 And Yacob continued to call the place where Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} had spoken with him Bethʹel.
16 Then they pulled away from Bethʹel. And while they were still some distance from Ephʹrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was very difficult. 17 But while she was struggling to deliver the child, the midwife said to her: “Do not be afraid, for you will have this son also.” 18 Just as her life was slipping away (for she was dying), she named him Ben-oʹni, but his father called him Benjamin. 19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephʹrath, that is, Bethʹle·hem. 20 Yacob set up a pillar over her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
21 After that Isra'Al pulled away and pitched his tent a distance beyond the tower of Eʹder. 22 Once while Isra'Al was dwelling in that land, Reuʹben went and lay down with Bilʹhah his father’s concubine, and Isra'Al heard about it.
So there were 12 sons of Yacob. 23 The sons by Leʹah were Yacob’s firstborn Reuʹben, then Simʹe·on, Leʹvi, Judah, Isʹsa·char, and Zebʹu·lun. 24 The sons by Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. 25 And the sons by Bilʹhah, Rachel’s servant, were Dan and Naphʹta·li. 26 And the sons by Zilʹpah, Leʹah’s servant, were Gad and Ashʹer. These are Yacob’s sons, who were born to him in Padʹdan-aʹram.
27 Yacob eventually came to where his father Isaac was at Mamʹre, to Kirʹi·ath-arʹba, that is, Hebʹron, where Avraham and also Isaac had resided as foreigners. 28 Isaac lived to be 180 years old. 29 Then Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, after a long and satisfying life; and his sons Eʹsau and Yacob buried him.