Jacob Goes Up to Bethel
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to aBethel and live there, and make an altar there to bGod, who appeared to you cwhen you fled from your brother Esau.” 2 So Jacob said to his ahousehold and to all who were with him, “Put away bthe foreign gods which are among you and ccleanse yourselves and change your garments; 3 and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make aan altar there to God, bwho answered me in the day of my distress and chas been with me wherever I have gone.” 4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
5 Then they journeyed on, and there was aa terror from God upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to aLuz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7 aAnd he built an altar there and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother. 8 Then aDeborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.
Jacob Is Renamed Israel
9 Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He ablessed him. 10 aAnd God said to him,
“Your name is Jacob;
Your name shall no longer be called Jacob,
But Israel shall be your name.”
Thus He called his name Israel. 11 God also said to him,
“I am aGod Almighty;
bBe fruitful and multiply;
A nation and an cassembly of nations shall come from you,
And dkings shall come forth from your loins.
12 aAnd the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,
I will give it to you,
And I will give the land to your seed after you.”
13 Then aGod went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him. 14 And Jacob set up aa pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. 15 So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, aBethel.
16 Then they journeyed from Bethel; and there was still some distance to go to aEphrath, and Rachel gave birth, and she suffered severely in her labor. 17 Now it happened that when she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now ayou have another son.” 18 Now it happened as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. 19 So aRachel died and was buried on the way to bEphrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the apillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. 21 Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the atower of Eder.
The Sons of Jacob
22 Now it happened while Israel was dwelling in that land, that aReuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.
And there were twelve sons of Jacob—
23 athe sons of Leah:
Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn,
then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;
24 athe sons of Rachel:
Joseph and Benjamin;
25 and athe sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant-woman:
Dan and Naphtali;
26 and athe sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant-woman:
Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at aMamre of bKiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
28 Now the days of Isaac were a180 years. 29 And Isaac breathed his last and died and was agathered to his people, an bold man and full of days; and chis sons Esau and Jacob buried him.