Genesis 35
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Genesis 35:5-18

5Then they journeyed, and the terror of God was on the cities that were around them, so they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

6Then Jacob arrived at Luz in the land of Canaan (that is Beth-El), he and all the people who were with him.

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

8Then Rebekah’s nurse Deborah died, and was buried below Beth-El, under the oak—so it was named Oak of Weeping.

9God appeared to Jacob again, after he returned from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.

10God said to him: “Your name was Jacob. No longer will your name be Jacob, for your name will be Israel.” So He named him Israel.

11God also said to him: “I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assembly of nations will come from you. From your loins will come forth kings.

12The land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac— I give it to you, and to your seed after you I will give the land.”

13Then God went up from him at the place where He had spoken with him.

14Jacob set up a memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him—a stone pillar—and he poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

15Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Beth-El.

16Then they traveled from Beth-El, and while they were still a distance from entering Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, but her labor was difficult.

17While she was struggling to give birth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for this is also a son for you.”

18Now as her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Ben-Oni, but his father named him Benjamin.

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