Genesis 35:8-11

Contemporary English Version

⁸ While they were there, Rebekah's personal servant Deborah^[a] died. They buried her under an oak tree and called it “Weeping Oak.”

God Blesses Jacob at Bethel

^9-11 (A)(B) After Jacob came back to the land of Canaan, God appeared to him again. This time he gave Jacob a new name and blessed him by saying:

I am God All-Powerful, and from now on your name will be Israel^[b] instead of Jacob. You will have many children. Your descendants will become nations, and some of the men in your family will even be kings.