8. But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under an oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth [oak of weeping].
9. And God [in a distinctly visible manifestation] appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padan-aram, and declared a blessing on him. [Gen. 32:28.]
10. Again God said to him, Your name is Jacob [supplanter]; you shall not be called Jacob any longer, but Israel shall be your name. So He called him Israel [contender with God].
11. And God 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 be born of your stock;
12. The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and to your descendants after you I will give the land.
13. Then God ascended from him in the place where He talked with him.
14. And Jacob set up a pillar (monument) in the place where he talked with [God], a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it and he poured oil on it.
15. And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him Bethel [house of God].
16. And they journeyed from Bethel and had but a little way to go to Ephrath [Bethlehem] when Rachel suffered the pangs of childbirth and had hard labor.
17. When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, Do not be afraid; you shall have this son also.
18. And as her soul was departing, for she died, she called his name Ben-oni [son of my sorrow]; but his father called him Benjamin [son of the right hand].
19. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.
20. And Jacob set a pillar (monument) on her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
21. Then Israel journeyed on and spread his tent on the other side of the tower of Edar.
22. When Israel dwelt there, Reuben [his eldest son] went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob's sons were twelve.
23. The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.