Rachel is going to have a second son, giving Jacob a total of 12, but dies in child birth. Isaac also dies at the end of this chapter but he was 180 years old; he lived to see Jacob return and be reconciled to his older brother Esau.

Genesis 35

God said to Jacob “Arise, go to Bethel and settle there. Make an altar there to God who appeared to you when you fled from the face of your brother Esau.”

2 Then Jacob said to his household and to all that were with him: “Put away the foreign gods that you have with you, purify yourselves and change your clothes. 

3 Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will build there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

4 And they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which they had, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak at Shechem. 

5 As they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

6 So Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz, that is Bethel, in the land of Canaan.

7 He built an altar there and called the place El-Bethel, because God appeared to him there when he fled from the face of his brother.

8 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon Bachuth. 

9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came out of Paddan-Aram, and blessed him.

10 And God said to him “Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be called Jacob but your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.

11 God also said to him “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you and kings will be among your descendants;

12 And the land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.

13 Then God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, a stone pillar, and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.

15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.

16 And they journeyed from Bethel.They were still some distance from Ephrath, and Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.

17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her “Do not be afraid, for you have another son” 

18 With her last breath (for she was dying) she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. 

19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

20 And Jacob set up a pillar on her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

21 Israel journeyed on, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.

22 When Israel lived in that land, Reuben went in and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine: and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had 12 sons:

23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun:

24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph and Benjamin:

25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant; Dan, and Naphtali:

26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

27 Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, in Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron) where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

28 And the days of Isaac were 180 years.

29 And Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.