Genesis 35:1–14

¹And God saith unto Jacob, ‘Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.’ ²And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who are with him, ‘Turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; ³and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.’ ⁴And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that are in their hand, and the rings that are in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which is by Shechem; ⁵and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which are round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.

⁶And Jacob cometh in to Luz which is in the land of Canaan (it is Bethel), he and all the people who are with him, ⁷and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother. ⁸And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name ‘Oak of weeping.’ ⁹And God appeareth unto Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him; ¹⁰and God saith to him, ‘Thy name is Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;’ and He calleth his name Israel. ¹¹And God saith to him, ‘I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out; ¹²and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac—to thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.’ ¹³And God goeth up from him, in the place where He hath spoken with him. ¹⁴And Jacob setteth up a standing pillar in the place where He hath spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he poureth on it an oblation, and he poureth on it oil;