11. God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
12. The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”
13. God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
14. Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
15. Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.
16. They travelled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labour.
17. When she was in hard labour, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
18. As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
19. Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).
20. Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
21. Israel travelled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
22. While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.