Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah,[a](A) died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.[b]

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him. 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel.”(B) So he named him Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 35:8 Lit Deborah, Rebekah’s wet nurse; Gn 24:59
  2. 35:8 = Oak of Weeping

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