1 T hen God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

2 A nd Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

3 T hen let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.”

4 S o they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.

5 A nd they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

6 S o Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

7 A nd he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

8 N ow Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.

9 T hen God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan Aram, and blessed him.

10 A nd God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name.” So He called his name Israel.

11 A lso God said to him: “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.

12 T he land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land.”

13 T hen God went up from him in the place where He talked with him.

14 S o Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.

15 A nd Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel. Death of Rachel

16 T hen they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor.

17 N ow it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear; you will have this son also.”

18 A nd so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

19 S o Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

20 A nd Jacob set a pillar on her grave, which is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

21 T hen Israel journeyed and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

22 A nd it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard about it. Jacob’s Twelve Sons Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

23 t he sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

24 t he sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin;

25 t he sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali;

26 a nd the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Padan Aram. Death of Isaac

27 T hen Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had dwelt.

28 N ow the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.

29 S o Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.