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Gen 29:1)  Jacob set out again on his way to the people of the east.  (2)  He noticed a well out in an open field with three flocks of sheep bedded down around it. This was the common well from which the flocks were watered. The stone over the mouth of the well was huge.  (3)  When all the flocks were gathered, the shepherds would roll the stone from the well and water the sheep; then they would return the stone, covering the well.  (4)  Jacob said, "Hello friends. Where are you from?" They said, "We're from Haran."  (5)  Jacob asked, "Do you know Laban son of Nahor?" "We do."  (6)  "Are things well with him?" Jacob continued. "Very well," they said. "And here is his daughter Rachel coming with the flock."  (7)  Jacob said, "There's a lot of daylight still left; it isn't time to round up the sheep yet, is it? So why not water the flocks and go back to grazing?"  (8)  "We can't," they said. "Not until all the shepherds get here. It takes all of us to roll the stone from the well. Not until then can we water the flocks."  (9)  While Jacob was in conversation with them, Rachel came up with her father's sheep. She was the shepherd.  (10)  The moment Jacob spotted Rachel, daughter of Laban his mother's brother, saw her arriving with his uncle Laban's sheep, he went and single-handedly rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.  (11)  Then he kissed Rachel and broke into tears.  (12)  He told Rachel that he was related to her father, that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.  (13)  When Laban heard the news--Jacob, his sister's son!--he ran out to meet him, embraced and kissed him and brought him home. Jacob told Laban the story of everything that had happened.  (14)  Laban said, "You're family! My flesh and blood!" When Jacob had been with him for a month,  (15)  Laban said, "Just because you're my nephew, you shouldn't work for me for nothing. Tell me what you want to be paid. What's a fair wage?"  (16)  Now Laban had two daughters; Leah was the older and Rachel the younger.  (17)  Leah had nice eyes, but Rachel was stunningly beautiful.  (18)  And it was Rachel that Jacob loved. So Jacob answered, "I will work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."  (19)  "It is far better," said Laban, "that I give her to you than marry her to some outsider. Yes. Stay here with me."  (20)  So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel. But it only seemed like a few days, he loved her so much.  (21)  Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife; I've completed what we agreed I'd do. I'm ready to consummate my marriage."  (22)  Laban invited everyone around and threw a big feast.  (23)  At evening, though, he got his daughter Leah and brought her to the marriage bed, and Jacob slept with her.  (24)  (Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maid.)  (25)  Morning came: There was Leah in the marriage bed! Jacob confronted Laban, "What have you done to me? Didn't I work all this time for the hand of Rachel? Why did you cheat me?"  (26)  "We don't do it that way in our country," said Laban. "We don't marry off the younger daughter before the older.  (27)  Enjoy your week of honeymoon, and then we'll give you the other one also. But it will cost you another seven years of work."  (28)  Jacob agreed. When he'd completed the honeymoon week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.  (29)  (Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maid.)  (30)  Jacob then slept with her. And he loved Rachel more than Leah. He worked for Laban another seven years.  (31)  When GOD realized that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb. But Rachel was barren.  (32)  Leah became pregnant and had a son. She named him Reuben (Look-It's-a-Boy!). "This is a sign," she said, "that GOD has seen my misery; and a sign that now my husband will love me."  (33)  She became pregnant again and had another son. "GOD heard," she said, "that I was unloved and so he gave me this son also." She named this one Simeon (GOD-Heard).  (34)  She became pregnant yet again--another son. She said, "Now maybe my husband will connect with me--I've given him three sons!" That's why she named him Levi (Connect).  (35)  She became pregnant a final time and had a fourth son. She said, "This time I'll praise GOD." So she named him Judah (Praise-GOD). Then she stopped having children.  

Gen 30:1)  When Rachel realized that she wasn't having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She told Jacob, "Give me sons or I'll die!"  (2)  Jacob got angry with Rachel and said, "Am I God? Am I the one who refused you babies?"  (3)  Rachel said, "Here's my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her. Let her substitute for me so I can have a child through her and build a family."  (4)  So she gave him her maid Bilhah for a wife and Jacob slept with her.  (5)  Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.  (6)  Rachel said, "God took my side and vindicated me. He listened to me and gave me a son." She named him Dan (Vindication).  (7)  Rachel's maid Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son.  (8)  Rachel said, "I've been in an all-out fight with my sister--and I've won." So she named him Naphtali (Fight).  (9)  When Leah saw that she wasn't having any more children, she gave her maid Zilpah to Jacob for a wife.  (10)  Zilpah had a son for Jacob.  (11)  Leah said, "How fortunate!" and she named him Gad (Lucky).  (12)  When Leah's maid Zilpah had a second son for Jacob,  (13)  Leah said, "A happy day! The women will congratulate me in my happiness." So she named him Asher (Happy).  (14)  One day during the wheat harvest Reuben found some mandrakes in the field and brought them home to his mother Leah. Rachel asked Leah, "Could I please have some of your son's mandrakes?"  (15)  Leah said, "Wasn't it enough that you got my husband away from me? And now you also want my son's mandrakes?" Rachel said, "All right. I'll let him sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's love-apples."  (16)  When Jacob came home that evening from the fields, Leah was there to meet him: "Sleep with me tonight; I've bartered my son's mandrakes for a night with you." So he slept with her that night.  (17)  God listened to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a fifth son.  (18)  She said, "God rewarded me for giving my maid to my husband." She named him Issachar (Bartered).  (19)  Leah became pregnant yet again and gave Jacob a sixth son,  (20)  saying, "God has given me a great gift. This time my husband will honor me with gifts--I've given him six sons!" She named him Zebulun (Honor).  (21)  Last of all she had a daughter and named her Dinah.  (22)  And then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb.  (23)  She became pregnant and had a son. She said, "God has taken away my humiliation."  (24)  She named him Joseph (Add), praying, "May GOD add yet another son to me."  (25)  After Rachel had had Joseph, Jacob spoke to Laban, "Let me go back home.  (26)  Give me my wives and children for whom I've served you. You know how hard I've worked for you."  (27)  Laban said, "If you please, I have learned through divine inquiry that GOD has blessed me because of you."  (28)  He went on, "So name your wages. I'll pay you."  (29)  Jacob replied, "You know well what my work has meant to you and how your livestock has flourished under my care.  (30)  The little you had when I arrived has increased greatly; everything I did resulted in blessings for you. Isn't it about time that I do something for my own family?"  (31)  "So, what should I pay you?" Jacob said, "You don't have to pay me a thing. But how about this? I will go back to pasture and care for your flocks.  (32)  Go through your entire flock today and take out every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.  (33)  That way you can check on my honesty when you assess my wages. If you find any goat that's not speckled or spotted or a sheep that's not black, you will know that I stole it."  (34)  "Fair enough," said Laban. "It's a deal."  (35)  But that very day Laban removed all the mottled and spotted billy goats and all the speckled and spotted nanny-goats, every animal that had even a touch of white on it plus all the black sheep and placed them under the care of his sons.  (36)  Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Meanwhile Jacob went on tending what was left of Laban's flock.  (37)  But Jacob got fresh branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled the bark, leaving white stripes on them.  (38)  He stuck the peeled branches in front of the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. When the flocks were in heat, they came to drink  (39)  and mated in front of the streaked branches. Then they gave birth to young that were streaked or spotted or speckled.  (40)  Jacob placed the ewes before the dark-colored animals of Laban. That way he got distinctive flocks for himself which he didn't mix with Laban's flocks.  (41)  And when the sturdier animals were mating, Jacob placed branches at the troughs in view of the animals so that they mated in front of the branches.  (42)  But he wouldn't set up the branches before the feebler animals. That way the feeble animals went to Laban and the sturdy ones to Jacob.  (43)  The man got richer and richer, acquiring huge flocks, lots and lots of servants, not to mention camels and donkeys.  

Gen 31:1)  Jacob learned that Laban's sons were talking behind his back: "Jacob has used our father's wealth to make himself rich at our father's expense."  (2)  At the same time, Jacob noticed that Laban had changed toward him. He wasn't treating him the same.  (3)  That's when GOD said to Jacob, "Go back home where you were born. I'll go with you."  (4)  So Jacob sent word for Rachel and Leah to meet him out in the field where his flocks were.  (5)  He said, "I notice that your father has changed toward me; he doesn't treat me the same as before. But the God of my father hasn't changed; he's still with me.  (6)  You know how hard I've worked for your father.  (7)  Still, your father has cheated me over and over, changing my wages time and again. But God never let him really hurt me.  (8)  If he said, 'Your wages will consist of speckled animals' the whole flock would start having speckled lambs and kids. And if he said, 'From now on your wages will be streaked animals' the whole flock would have streaked ones.  (9)  Over and over God used your father's livestock to reward me.  (10)  "Once, while the flocks were mating, I had a dream and saw the billy goats, all of them streaked, speckled, and mottled, mounting their mates.  (11)  In the dream an angel of God called out to me, 'Jacob!' "I said, 'Yes?'  (12)  "He said, 'Watch closely. Notice that all the goats in the flock that are mating are streaked, speckled, and mottled. I know what Laban's been doing to you.  (13)  I'm the God of Bethel where you consecrated a pillar and made a vow to me. Now be on your way, get out of this place, go home to your birthplace.'"  (14)  Rachel and Leah said, "Has he treated us any better?  (15)  Aren't we treated worse than outsiders? All he wanted was the money he got from selling us, and he's spent all that.  (16)  Any wealth that God has seen fit to return to us from our father is justly ours and our children's. Go ahead. Do what God told you."  (17)  Jacob did it. He put his children and his wives on camels  (18)  and gathered all his livestock and everything he had gotten, everything acquired in Paddan Aram, to go back home to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.  (19)  Laban was off shearing sheep. Rachel stole her father's household gods.  (20)  And Jacob had concealed his plans so well that Laban the Aramean had no idea what was going on--he was totally in the dark.  (21)  Jacob got away with everything he had and was soon across the Euphrates headed for the hill country of Gilead.  (22)  Three days later, Laban got the news: "Jacob's run off."  (23)  Laban rounded up his relatives and chased after him. Seven days later they caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.  (24)  That night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, "Be careful what you do to Jacob, whether good or bad."  (25)  When Laban reached him, Jacob's tents were pitched in the Gilead mountains; Laban pitched his tents there too.  (26)  "What do you mean," said Laban, "by keeping me in the dark and sneaking off, hauling my daughters off like prisoners of war?  (27)  Why did you run off like a thief in the night? Why didn't you tell me? Why, I would have sent you off with a great celebration--music, timbrels, flutes!  (28)  But you wouldn't permit me so much as a kiss for my daughters and grandchildren. It was a stupid thing for you to do.  (29)  If I had a mind to, I could destroy you right now, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, 'Be careful what you do to Jacob, whether good or bad.'  (30)  I understand. You left because you were homesick. But why did you steal my household gods?"  (31)  Jacob answered Laban, "I was afraid. I thought you would take your daughters away from me by brute force.  (32)  But as far as your gods are concerned, if you find that anybody here has them, that person dies. With all of us watching, look around. If you find anything here that belongs to you, take it." Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen the gods.  (33)  Laban went through Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, and the tents of the two maids but didn't find them. He went from Leah's tent to Rachel's.  (34)  But Rachel had taken the household gods, put them inside a camel cushion, and was sitting on them. When Laban had gone through the tent, searching high and low without finding a thing,  (35)  Rachel said to her father, "Don't think I'm being disrespectful, my master, that I can't stand before you, but I'm having my period." So even though he turned the place upside down in his search, he didn't find the household gods.  (36)  Now it was Jacob's turn to get angry. He lit into Laban: "So what's my crime, what wrong have I done you that you badger me like this?  (37)  You've ransacked the place. Have you turned up a single thing that's yours? Let's see it--display the evidence. Our two families can be the jury and decide between us.  (38)  "In the twenty years I've worked for you, ewes and she-goats never miscarried. I never feasted on the rams from your flock.  (39)  I never brought you a torn carcass killed by wild animals but that I paid for it out of my own pocket--actually, you made me pay whether it was my fault or not.  (40)  I was out in all kinds of weather, from torrid heat to freezing cold, putting in many a sleepless night.  (41)  For twenty years I've done this: I slaved away fourteen years for your two daughters and another six years for your flock and you changed my wages ten times.  (42)  If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not stuck with me, you would have sent me off penniless. But God saw the fix I was in and how hard I had worked and last night rendered his verdict."  (43)  Laban defended himself: "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flock is my flock--everything you see is mine. But what can I do about my daughters or for the children they've had?  (44)  So let's settle things between us, make a covenant--God will be the witness between us."  (45)  Jacob took a stone and set it upright as a pillar.  (46)  Jacob called his family around, "Get stones!" They gathered stones and heaped them up and then ate there beside the pile of stones.  (47)  Laban named it in Aramaic, Yegar-sahadutha (Witness Monument); Jacob echoed the naming in Hebrew, Galeed (Witness Monument).  (48)  Laban said, "This monument of stones will be a witness, beginning now, between you and me." (That's why it is called Galeed--Witness Monument.)  (49)  It is also called Mizpah (Watchtower) because Laban said, "GOD keep watch between you and me when we are out of each other's sight.  (50)  If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives when there's no one around to see you, God will see you and stand witness between us."  (51)  Laban continued to Jacob, "This monument of stones and this stone pillar that I have set up is a witness,  (52)  a witness that I won't cross this line to hurt you and you won't cross this line to hurt me.  (53)  The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor (the God of their ancestor) will keep things straight between us." Jacob promised, swearing by the Fear, the God of his father Isaac.  (54)  Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and worshiped, calling in all his family members to the meal. They ate and slept that night on the mountain.  (55)  Laban got up early the next morning, kissed his grandchildren and his daughters, blessed them, and then set off for home.  

Gen 32:1)  And Jacob went his way. Angels of God met him.  (2)  When Jacob saw them he said, "Oh! God's Camp!" And he named the place Mahanaim (Campground).  (3)  Then Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir in Edom.  (4)  He instructed them: "Tell my master Esau this, 'A message from your servant Jacob: I've been staying with Laban and couldn't get away until now.  (5)  I've acquired cattle and donkeys and sheep; also men and women servants. I'm telling you all this, my master, hoping for your approval.'"  (6)  The messengers came back to Jacob and said, "We talked to your brother Esau and he's on his way to meet you. But he has four hundred men with him."  (7)  Jacob was scared. Very scared. Panicked, he divided his people, sheep, cattle, and camels into two camps.  (8)  He thought, "If Esau comes on the first camp and attacks it, the other camp has a chance to get away."  (9)  And then Jacob prayed, "God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, GOD who told me, 'Go back to your parents' homeland and I'll treat you well.'  (10)  I don't deserve all the love and loyalty you've shown me. When I left here and crossed the Jordan I only had the clothes on my back, and now look at me--two camps!  (11)  Save me, please, from the violence of my brother, my angry brother! I'm afraid he'll come and attack us all, me, the mothers and the children.  (12)  You yourself said, 'I will treat you well; I'll make your descendants like the sands of the sea, far too many to count.'"  (13)  He slept the night there. Then he prepared a present for his brother Esau from his possessions:  (14)  two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,  (15)  thirty camels with their nursing young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.  (16)  He put a servant in charge of each herd and said, "Go ahead of me and keep a healthy space between each herd."  (17)  Then he instructed the first one out: "When my brother Esau comes close and asks, 'Who is your master? Where are you going? Who owns these?'--  (18)  answer him like this, 'Your servant Jacob. They are a gift to my master Esau. He's on his way.'"  (19)  He gave the same instructions to the second servant and to the third--to each in turn as they set out with their herds:  (20)  "Say 'Your servant Jacob is on his way behind us.'" He thought, "I will soften him up with the succession of gifts. Then when he sees me face-to-face, maybe he'll be glad to welcome me."  (21)  So his gifts went before him while he settled down for the night in the camp.  (22)  But during the night he got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.  (23)  He got them safely across the brook along with all his possessions.  (24)  But Jacob stayed behind by himself, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.  (25)  When the man saw that he couldn't get the best of Jacob as they wrestled, he deliberately threw Jacob's hip out of joint.  (26)  The man said, "Let me go; it's daybreak." Jacob said, "I'm not letting you go 'til you bless me."  (27)  The man said, "What's your name?" He answered, "Jacob."  (28)  The man said, "But no longer. Your name is no longer Jacob. From now on it's Israel (God-Wrestler); you've wrestled with God and you've come through."  (29)  Jacob asked, "And what's your name?" The man said, "Why do you want to know my name?" And then, right then and there, he blessed him.  (30)  Jacob named the place Peniel (God's Face) because, he said, "I saw God face-to-face and lived to tell the story!"  (31)  The sun came up as he left Peniel, limping because of his hip.  (32)  (This is why Israelites to this day don't eat the hip muscle; because Jacob's hip was thrown out of joint.)  

Gen 33:1)  Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah and Rachel and the two maidservants.  (2)  He put the maidservants out in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.  (3)  He led the way and, as he approached his brother, bowed seven times, honoring his brother.  (4)  But Esau ran up and embraced him, held him tight and kissed him. And they both wept.  (5)  Then Esau looked around and saw the women and children: "And who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children that God saw fit to bless me with."  (6)  Then the maidservants came up with their children and bowed;  (7)  then Leah and her children, also bowing; and finally, Joseph and Rachel came up and bowed to Esau.  (8)  Esau then asked, "And what was the meaning of all those herds that I met?" "I was hoping that they would pave the way for my master to welcome me."  (9)  Esau said, "Oh, brother. I have plenty of everything--keep what is yours for yourself."  (10)  Jacob said, "Please. If you can find it in your heart to welcome me, accept these gifts. When I saw your face, it was as the face of God smiling on me.  (11)  Accept the gifts I have brought for you. God has been good to me and I have more than enough." Jacob urged the gifts on him and Esau accepted.  (12)  Then Esau said, "Let's start out on our way; I'll take the lead."  (13)  But Jacob said, "My master can see that the children are frail. And the flocks and herds are nursing, making for slow going. If I push them too hard, even for a day, I'd lose them all.  (14)  So, master, you go on ahead of your servant, while I take it easy at the pace of my flocks and children. I'll catch up with you in Seir."  (15)  Esau said, "Let me at least lend you some of my men." "There's no need," said Jacob. "Your generous welcome is all I need or want."  (16)  So Esau set out that day and made his way back to Seir.  (17)  And Jacob left for Succoth. He built a shelter for himself and sheds for his livestock. That's how the place came to be called Succoth (Sheds).  (18)  And that's how it happened that Jacob arrived all in one piece in Shechem in the land of Canaan--all the way from Paddan Aram. He camped near the city.  (19)  He bought the land where he pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. He paid a hundred silver coins for it.  (20)  Then he built an altar there and named it El-Elohe-Israel (Mighty Is the God of Israel).  

Gen 34:1)  One day Dinah, the daughter Leah had given Jacob, went to visit some of the women in that country.  (2)  Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was chieftain there, saw her and raped her.  (3)  Then he felt a strong attraction to Dinah, Jacob's daughter, fell in love with her and wooed her.  (4)  Shechem went to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl for my wife."  (5)  Jacob heard that Shechem had raped his daughter Dinah, but his sons were out in the fields with the livestock so he didn't say anything until they got home.  (6)  Hamor, Shechem's father, went to Jacob to work out marriage arrangements.  (7)  Meanwhile Jacob's sons on their way back from the fields heard what had happened. They were outraged, explosive with anger. Shechem's rape of Jacob's daughter was intolerable in Israel and not to be put up with.  (8)  Hamor spoke with Jacob and his sons, "My son Shechem is head over heels in love with your daughter--give her to him as his wife.  (9)  Intermarry with us. Give your daughters to us and we'll give our daughters to you.  (10)  Live together with us as one family. Settle down among us and make yourselves at home. Prosper among us."  (11)  Shechem then spoke for himself, addressing Dinah's father and brothers: "Please, say yes. I'll pay anything.  (12)  Set the bridal price as high as you will--the sky's the limit! Only give me this girl for my wife."  (13)  Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father with cunning. Their sister, after all, had been raped.  (14)  They said, "This is impossible. We could never give our sister to a man who was uncircumcised. Why, we'd be disgraced.  (15)  The only condition on which we can talk business is if all your men become circumcised like us.  (16)  Then we will freely exchange daughters in marriage and make ourselves at home among you and become one big, happy family.  (17)  But if this is not an acceptable condition, we will take our sister and leave."  (18)  That seemed fair enough to Hamor and his son Shechem.  (19)  The young man was so smitten with Jacob's daughter that he proceeded to do what had been asked. He was also the most admired son in his father's family.  (20)  So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the public square and spoke to the town council:  (21)  "These men like us; they are our friends. Let them settle down here and make themselves at home; there's plenty of room in the country for them. And, just think, we can even exchange our daughters in marriage.  (22)  But these men will only accept our invitation to live with us and become one big family on one condition, that all our males become circumcised just as they themselves are.  (23)  This is a very good deal for us--these people are very wealthy with great herds of livestock and we're going to get our hands on it. So let's do what they ask and have them settle down with us."  (24)  Everyone who was anyone in the city agreed with Hamor and his son, Shechem; every male was circumcised.  (25)  Three days after the circumcision, while all the men were still very sore, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each with his sword in hand, walked into the city as if they owned the place and murdered every man there.  (26)  They also killed Hamor and his son Shechem, rescued Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.  (27)  When the rest of Jacob's sons came on the scene of slaughter, they looted the entire city in retaliation for Dinah's rape.  (28)  Flocks, herds, donkeys, belongings--everything, whether in the city or the fields--they took.  (29)  And then they took all the wives and children captive and ransacked their homes for anything valuable.  (30)  Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You've made my name stink to high heaven among the people here, these Canaanites and Perizzites. If they decided to gang up on us and attack, as few as we are we wouldn't stand a chance; they'd wipe me and my people right off the map."  (31)  They said, "Nobody is going to treat our sister like a whore and get by with it."  

Gen 35:1)  God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau."  (2)  Jacob told his family and all those who lived with him, "Throw out all the alien gods which you have, take a good bath and put on clean clothes,  (3)  we're going to Bethel. I'm going to build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and has stuck with me everywhere I've gone since."  (4)  They turned over to Jacob all the alien gods they'd been holding on to, along with their lucky-charm earrings. Jacob buried them under the oak tree in Shechem.  (5)  Then they set out. A paralyzing fear descended on all the surrounding villages so that they were unable to pursue the sons of Jacob.  (6)  Jacob and his company arrived at Luz, that is, Bethel, in the land of Canaan.  (7)  He built an altar there and named it El-Bethel (God-of-Bethel) because that's where God revealed himself to him when he was running from his brother.  (8)  And that's when Rebekah's nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried just below Bethel under the oak tree. It was named Allon-Bacuth (Weeping-Oak).  (9)  God revealed himself once again to Jacob, after he had come back from Paddan Aram and blessed him:  (10)  "Your name is Jacob (Heel); but that's your name no longer. From now on your name is Israel (God-Wrestler)."  (11)  God continued, I am The Strong God. Have children! Flourish! A nation--a whole company of nations!-- will come from you. Kings will come from your loins;  (12)  the land I gave Abraham and Isaac I now give to you, and pass it on to your descendants.  (13)  And then God was gone, ascended from the place where he had spoken with him.  (14)  Jacob set up a stone pillar on the spot where God had spoken with him. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.  (15)  Jacob dedicated the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel (God's-House).  (16)  They left Bethel. They were still quite a ways from Ephrath when Rachel went into labor--hard, hard labor.  (17)  When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid--you have another boy."  (18)  With her last breath, for she was now dying, she named him Ben-oni (Son-of-My-Pain), but his father named him Ben-jamin (Son-of-Good-Fortune).  (19)  Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.  (20)  Jacob set up a pillar to mark her grave. It is still there today, "Rachel's Grave Stone."  (21)  Israel kept on his way and set up camp at Migdal Eder.  (22)  While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with his father's concubine, Bilhah. And Israel heard of what he did. There were twelve sons of Jacob.  (23)  The sons by Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun.  (24)  The sons by Rachel: Joseph, Benjamin.  (25)  The sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan, Naphtali.  (26)  The sons by Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad, Asher. These were Jacob's sons, born to him in Paddan Aram.  (27)  Finally, Jacob made it back home to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba, present-day Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.  (28)  Isaac was now 180 years old.  (29)  Isaac breathed his last and died--an old man full of years. He was buried with his family by his sons Esau and Jacob.