Genesis 35

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 God said to Jacob: "Go up now to Bethel. Settle there and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you while you were fleeing from your brother Esau."	1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
2 So Jacob told his family and all the others who were with him: "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have among you; then purify yourselves and put on fresh clothes.	2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
3 We are now to go up to Bethel, and I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my hour of distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone."	3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
4 They therefore handed over to Jacob all the foreign gods in their possession and also the rings they had in their ears.	4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
5 Then, as they set out, a terror from God fell upon the towns round about, so that no one pursued the sons of Jacob.	5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
6 Thus Jacob and all the people who were with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.	6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
7 There he built an altar and named the place Bethel, for it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.	7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8 Death came to Rebekah's nurse Deborah; she was buried under the oak below Bethel, and so it was called Allonbacuth.	8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
9 On Jacob's arrival from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.	9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
10 God said to him: "You whose name is Jacob shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." Thus he was named Israel.	10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
11 God also said to him: "I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, shall stem from you, and kings shall issue from your loins.	11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
12 The land I once gave to Abraham and Isaac I now give to you; And to your descendants after you will I give this land."	12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
13 Then God departed from him.	13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
14 On the site where God had spoken with him, Jacob set up a memorial stone, and upon it he made a libation and poured out oil.	14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
15 Jacob named the site Bethel, because God had spoken with him there.	15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
16 Then they departed from Bethel; but while they still had some distance to go on the way to Ephrath, Rachel began to be in labor and to suffer great distress.	16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
17 When her pangs were most severe, her midwife said to her, "Have no fear! This time, too, you have a son."	17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
18 With her last breath--for she was at the point of death-she called him Ben-oni; his father, however, named him Benjamin.	18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
19 Thus Rachel died; and she was buried on the road to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).	19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20 Jacob set up a memorial stone on her grave, and the same monument marks Rachel's grave to this day.	20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
21 Israel moved on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder.	21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
22 While Israel was encamped in that region, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine. When Israel heard of it, he was greatly offended. The sons of Jacob were now twelve.	22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23 The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;	23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;	24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
25 the sons of Rachel's maid Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali;	25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
26 the sons of Leah's maid Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.	26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
27 Jacob went home to his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.	27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28 The lifetime of Isaac was one hundred and eighty years;	28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
29 then he breathed his last. After a full life, he died as an old man and was taken to his kinsmen. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.	29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.