[1] And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place
there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were
in flight from your brother Esau. [2] Then Jacob said to all his people,
Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean,
and put on a change of clothing: [3] And let us go up to Beth-el: and there
I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my
trouble, and was with me wherever I went. [4] Then they gave to Jacob all
the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears;
and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem. [5] So they went on
their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that
they made no attack on the sons of Jacob. [6] And Jacob came to Luz in the
land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people. [7]
And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was
there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother. [8]
And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came
to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they
gave it the name of Allon-bacuth. [9] Now when Jacob was on his way from
Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said, [10] Jacob is
your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel;
so he was named Israel. [11] And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of
all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations,
will come from you, and kings will be your offspring; [12] And the land
which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed
after you I will give the land. [13] Then God went up from him in the place
where he had been talking with him. [14] And Jacob put up a pillar in the
place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it,
and oil. [15] And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him,
the name of Beth-el. [16] So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were
still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she
had a hard time. [17] And when her pain was very great, the woman who was
helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son. [18] And
in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave
the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.
[19] So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath
(which is Beth-lehem). [20] And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place;
which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day.
[21] And Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the other side
of the tower of the flock. [22] Now while they were living in that country,
Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel
had news of it. [23] Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben,
Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;
[24] The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; [25] The sons of Bilhah,
Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali; [26] The sons of Zilpah, Leah's
servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.
[27] And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is,
Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living. [28] And Isaac was a
hundred and eighty years old. [29] Then Isaac came to his end and was put
to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob
and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.
