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Genesis 34:24 (NIV)

All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.

Genesis 34:25 (NIV)

Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.

Genesis 34:26 (NIV)

They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.

Genesis 34:27 (NIV)

The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled.

Genesis 34:28 (NIV)

They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.

Genesis 34:29 (NIV)

They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

Genesis 34:31 (NIV)

But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

Genesis 35:1 (NIV)

Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:2 (NIV)

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Genesis 35:3 (NIV)

Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Genesis 35:4 (NIV)

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.

Genesis 35:5 (NIV)

Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

Genesis 35:6 (NIV)

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

Genesis 35:7 (NIV)

There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Genesis 35:8 (NIV)

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.

Genesis 35:9 (NIV)

After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

Genesis 35:10 (NIV)

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

Genesis 35:11 (NIV)

And God said to him, “I am God Almighty ; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.

Genesis 35:12 (NIV)

The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

Genesis 35:13 (NIV)

Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.

Genesis 35:15 (NIV)

Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.

Genesis 35:16 (NIV)

Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.

Genesis 35:17 (NIV)

And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t despair, for you have another son.”

Genesis 35:18 (NIV)

As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.