Genesis 35:1–7

God Blesses and Renames Jacob

35God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to ^bBethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you ^cwhen you fled from your brother Esau.” ²So Jacob said to his ^dhousehold and to all who were with him, “Put away ^ethe foreign gods that are among you and ^fpurify yourselves and change your garments. ³Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God ^gwho answers me in the day of my distress and ^hhas been with me wherever I have gone.” ⁴So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under ⁱthe terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

⁵And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. ⁶And Jacob came to ^jLuz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him, ⁷and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,¹ because ^kthere God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.