Genesis 35:1–14

In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.

²And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.

³Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompanied me in my journey.

⁴So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.

⁵And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.

⁶And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.

⁷And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.

⁸At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.

⁹And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,

¹⁰Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.

¹¹And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

¹²And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

¹³And he departed from him.

¹⁴But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon: