1And God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
2And Jacob said to his house and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;
3and let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went."
4And they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that was by Shechem.
5And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that were around them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
6And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan — that is Bethel — he and all the people that were with him.
7And he built there an altar, and called the place El-Bethel, because there God was revealed to him when he fled from the face of his brother.
8And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and he called its name Allon-bacuth.
9And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
10And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." And he called his name Israel.
11And God said to him, "I am God Almighty (El Shaddai); be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be from you, and kings shall come out of your loins.
12And the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, to you I will give it; and to your seed after you I will give the land."
13And God went up from him, in the place where he spoke with him.
14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out on it a drink-offering, and poured on it oil.
15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
16And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was still some distance of land to come to Ephrath; and Rachel gave birth, and she had hard labor in her bearing.
17And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Fear not, for this also is a son for you."
18And it came to pass, as her soul (nephesh) was going out — for she died — that she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
19And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath — that is Bethlehem.
20And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
21And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder.
22And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
23The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.
24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
25And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali.
26And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27And Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba — that is Hebron — where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
28And the days of Isaac were a hundred years and eighty years.
29And Isaac expired, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.