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

After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram,[b] God appeared to him again and blessed him. 10 God said to him, ‘Your name is Jacob,[c] but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.[d]’ So he named him Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:8 Allon Bakuth means oak of weeping.
  2. Genesis 35:9 That is, North-west Mesopotamia; also in verse 26
  3. Genesis 35:10 Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he deceives.
  4. Genesis 35:10 Israel probably means he struggles with God.