Genesis 35 · Parashat Vayishlach

And God said to Ya῾aqov, Arise, go up to Bet-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, Who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from the face of ῾Esav thy brother.

Then Ya῾aqov said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and make yourselves clean, and change your garments:

and let us arise, and go up to Bet-el; and I will make there an altar to God, Who answers me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way on which I went.

And they gave to Ya῾aqov all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Ya῾aqov hid them under the oak which was by Shekhem.

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 Ya῾aqov.

So Ya῾aqov came to Luz, which is in the land of Kena῾an, that is, Bet-el, he and all the people that were with him.

And he built there an altar, and called the place El-bet-el: because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

And Devora, Rivqa’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bet-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bakhut.

And God appeared to Ya῾aqov again, when he came out of Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

And God said to him, Thy name Ya῾aqov: thy name shall not be called any more Ya῾aqov, but Yisra᾽el shall be thy name: and He called his name Yisra᾽el.

And God said to 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;

and the land which I gave to Avraham and Yiżĥaq, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

And God went up from him in the place where He talked with him.

And Ya῾aqov set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.

And Ya῾aqov called the name of the place where God had spoken with him, Bet-el.

And they journeyed from Bet-el; and there was but a little way to come to Efrat: and Raĥel travailed, and she had hard labour.

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Binyamin.

And Raĥel died, and was buried in the way to Efrat, which is Bet-leĥem.

And Ya῾aqov set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Raĥel’s grave to this day.

And Yisra᾽el journeyed, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of ῾Eder.

And it came to pass, when Yisra᾽el dwelt in that land, that Re᾽uven went and lay with Bilha his father’s concubine: and Yisra᾽el heard of it. Now the sons of Ya῾aqov were twelve:

the sons of Le᾽a; Re᾽uven, Ya῾aqov’s first-born, and Shim῾on and Levi, and Yehuda, and Yissakhar and Zevulun.

The sons of Raĥel; Yosef and Binyamin.

And the sons of Bilha, Raĥel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naftali.

And the sons of Zilpa, Le᾽a’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Ya῾aqov who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

And Ya῾aqov came to Yiżĥaq his father to Mamre, to the city of Arba, which is Ḥevron, where Avraham and Yiżĥaq sojourned.

And the days of Yiżĥaq were a hundred and eighty years.

And Yiżĥaq expired, and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons ῾Esav and Ya῾aqov buried him.