1 . God said to  Jacob , “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau , your brother.”

2 . Then  Jacob  said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

3 . Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.”

4 . They gave to  Jacob  all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and  Jacob  hid them under the oak which was by Shechem .

5 . They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around about them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of  Jacob .

6 . So  Jacob  came to Luz , which is in the land of Canaan (the same as Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.

7 . He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

8 . Deborah , Rebekah ’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon Bacuth.

9 . God appeared to  Jacob  again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

1 0 . God said to him, “Your name is  Jacob . Your name shall not be  Jacob  any more, but your name will be Israel .” He named him Israel .

11 . God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out from your loins.

12 . The land which I gave to  Abraham  and Isaac , I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land.”

13 . God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

14 .  Jacob  set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

15 .  Jacob  called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel.”

16 . They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

17 . It happened that w hen she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

18 . It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin .

19 . Rachel  died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

20 .  Jacob  set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel ’s grave to this day.

21 . Israel  traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

22 . It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that  Reuben went and lay with Bilhah , his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of  Jacob  were twelve.

23 . The sons of Leah : Reuben (  Jacob ’s firstborn),  Simeon , Levi , Judah , Issachar , and Zebulun .

2 4 . The sons of Rachel : Joseph and Benjamin .

25 . The sons of Bilhah ( Rachel ’s handmaid): Dan and Naphtali .

26 . The sons of Zilpah ( Leah ’s handmaid): Gad and Asher . These are the sons of  Jacob , who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

27 .  Jacob  came to Isaac , his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (the same as Hebron), where  Abraham  and Isaac lived as foreigners.

28 . The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

29 . Isaac  gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau  and  Jacob , his sons, buried him.