34:30. And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed. 34:31. They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet? Genesis Chapter 35 Jacob purgeth his family from idols: goeth by God's commandment to Bethel, and there buildeth an altar. God appearing again to Jacob blesseth him, and changeth his name into Israel. Rachel dieth in childbirth. Isaac also dieth. 35:1. In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother. 35:2. And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments. 35:3. Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey. 35:4. So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem. 35:5. And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away. 35:6. And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him. 35:7. And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother. 35:8. At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping. 35:9. And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him, 35:10. Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel. Israel. . .This name signifieth one that prevaileth with God. 35:11. And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins. 35:12. And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee. 35:13. And he departed from him. 35:14. But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink-offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon: 35:15. And calling the name of that place Bethel. 35:16. And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail, 35:17. By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.