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[1]AND God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and build there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the presence of your brother Esau.
[2]Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;
[3]And let us arise and go up to Beth-el; and I will build there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the journey that I took.
[4]So they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their possession, and the earrings that were in their ears; and Jacob buried them under the oak which was by Shechem.
[5]And they journeyed; and the fear of God fell upon the towns that were round about them, and they did not pursue after Jacob and his sons
[6]So Jacob came to Luz, that is Beth-el, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people that were with him.
[7]And he built there an altar, and called the place Beth-el (the house of God), because there God appeared to him when he fled from the presence of his brother Esau.
[8]Then Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Bethel under an oak; so the name of the oak was called Betemtha dabkhatha (the oak of weeping).
[9]And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan-aram, and blessed him.
[10]And God said to him. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; so he called his name Israel.
[11]And God said to him. I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply: a people and a multitude of peoples shall come from you, and kings shall come out of your loins;
[12]And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your descendants after you will I give the land.
[13]And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
[14]And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.
[15]And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el
[16]And they journeyed from Bethel, and continued until they came within the distance of a mile from the entrance to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor while she was being delivered.
[17]And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this one also is a son for you.
[18]And it came to pass, as her soul was departing and she was dying, she called the child's name Bar-kebai (the Son of My Sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin (the Son of My Right Hand).
[19]And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
[20]And Jacob set up a pillar upon the grave of Rachel; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day
[21]And Israel journeyed, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gadar.
[22]And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt 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 first-born, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
[24]And the sons of Rachel: Joseph, and Benjamin.
[25]And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan, and Naphtali.
[26]And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad, and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-aram.
[27]And Jacob came to his father Isaac to Mamre, to Koriath Gabarey, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
[28]And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
[29]Then Isaac grew weak and died; and he was gathered to his people, being very old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him in the burial ground which his father Abraham had purchased
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