God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make
an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from
your brother Esau.” So Jacob said to his household and to all who
were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you and
purify yourselves and change your garments. Then let us arise and
go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who
answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever
I have gone.” So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they
had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under
the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.
And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities
that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of
Jacob. And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the
land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him, and there
he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God
had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother. And
Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak
below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.
God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and
blessed him. And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer
shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So
he called his name Israel. And God said to him, “I am God Almighty:
be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall
come from you, and kings shall come from your own body. The land
that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will
give the land to your offspring after you.” Then God went up from
him in the place where he had spoken with him. And Jacob set up a
pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of
stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him
Bethel.
Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some
distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard
labor. And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to
her, “Do not fear, for you have another son.” And as her soul was
departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his
father called him Benjamin. So Rachel died, and she was buried on
the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), and Jacob set up a pillar
over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to
this day. Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower
of Eder.
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah
his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. The sons of Leah: Reuben
(Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. The sons of Bilhah,
Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali. The sons of Zilpah, Leah's
servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born
to him in Paddan-aram.
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba
(that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. Now the
days of Isaac were 180 years. And Isaac breathed his last, and he
died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his
sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
