Genesis 35:1–14

¹And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto the •God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. ²And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; ³and we will arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the •God that 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 strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that is by Shechem. ⁵And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about 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-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother. ⁸And Deborah, Rebecca’s nurse, died; and she was buried beneath Bethel, under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. ⁹And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from Padan-Aram, and blessed him. ¹⁰And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel. ¹¹And God said to him, I am the Almighty •God: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee; and kings shall come out of thy loins. ¹²And the land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. ¹³And God went up from him in the place where he had talked with him. ¹⁴And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked with him, a pillar of stone, and poured on it a drink-offering, and poured oil on it.