1 Now God said to Jacob, “Get up, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make an altar there to God who appeared to you when you ran away from the face of your brother Esau.”
2 Then 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 clothes! 3 Let’s get up and go up to Bethel. I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak that is near Shechem. 5 And they traveled on. And a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7 And he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel (which means God of God’s House), because God was revealed to him there when he ran away from the face of his brother.
8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died. And she was buried below Bethel under the oak, and its name was called Crying Oak.
9 And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came back from Paddan Aram, and He blessed him. 10 And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name won’t be Jacob any more, since your name will be Israel.” And He named him Israel. 11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Reproduce and increase in number. A nation and an assembly of nations will come from you, and kings will come out from your body. 12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”
13 And God went up from him in the place where He had 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 poured oil on it. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “God’s House.”
16 And they traveled on from Bethel. And there was still some distance to come to Efrat, and Rachel went into labor. And she had a very hard labor. 17 And it was, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for this one is another son for you.”
18 And as her life was departing (for she died), she named him Ben-Oni (which means Son of My Sorrow), but his father named him Benjamin (which means Right Hand Son). 19 And Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Efrat (which is Bethlehem now). 20 And Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. It is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. 21 And Israel traveled on, and spread his tent beyond Tower of the Flocks. 22 And it was, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it.
Jacob had twelve sons. 23 The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Shimon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. 25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant) were Dan and Naphtali. 26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant) were Gad and Asher. These are Jacob’s sons, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
27 Now Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, to the city of Arba (which is Hebron now), where Abraham and Isaac had lived as foreigners. 28 And the days of Isaac were 180 years. 29 And Isaac passed away and died. And he was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.