¶ And God said¹ unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel², and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou³ fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Then Jacob said unto his⁴ household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange⁵ gods that are among you, and be clean⁶, and change your garments:

And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered⁷ me in the day of my distress, and was with⁸ me in the way which I went.

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings⁹ which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them¹⁰ under the oak¹¹ which was by Shechem.

¹²And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

¶ So Jacob came to Luz¹³, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.

And he built¹⁴ there an altar, and called the place Elbethel¹⁵: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

But Deborah Rebekah's¹⁶ nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak¹⁷: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth¹⁸.

¹⁹And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.

¶²⁰And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty²¹: be fruitful and multiply; a nation²² and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

And the land²³ which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to²⁴ thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

²⁵And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

²⁶And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel²⁷.

¶ And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come²⁸ to Ephrath²⁹: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour³⁰.

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not;³¹ thou shalt have this son also.

And it came to pass, as her soul³² was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni³³: but his father called him Benjamin³⁴.

And Rachel died³⁵, and was buried in the way to Ephrath³⁶, which is Bethlehem.

¶ And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar³⁷ of Rachel's grave unto this day.

¶ And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower³⁸ of Edar.

And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with³⁹ Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons⁴⁰ of Jacob were twelve:

⁴¹The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

⁴²The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:

⁴³And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

And the sons⁴⁴ of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram⁴⁵.

And Jacob⁴⁶ came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre⁴⁷, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

⁴⁸And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

And Isaac⁴⁹ gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons⁵⁰ Esau and Jacob buried him.