1 God said to Jacob, "Get up, go up to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau."
2 So Jacob told his household and everyone with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you; purify yourselves and put on fresh clothes.
3 Then let us set out and go up to Bethel, and there I will build an altar to the God who answered me when I was in distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone."
4 They handed over to Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings from their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
5 As they set out, a dread sent by God came over the cities all around them, and no one pursued Jacob's sons.
6 Jacob and all the people with him arrived at Luz, that is, Bethel, in the land of Canaan.
7 He built an altar there and named the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him as he fled from his brother.
8 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So it was named Allon-bacuth.
9 After Jacob returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him once more and blessed him.
10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name." So he named him Israel.
11 God also said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and increase in number. A nation, and a company of nations, will come from you, and kings will spring from your body.
12 The land I gave to Abraham and to Isaac I give to you, and to your seed after you I will give this land."
13 Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him.
14 Jacob set up a standing stone at the place where God had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured a drink offering on it and poured oil over it.
15 Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
16 Then they set out from Bethel. While they were still some way from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and her labor was hard.
17 As she struggled in childbirth, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid; you have another son."
18 With her last breath, for she was dying, she named him Ben-oni; but his father named him Benjamin.
19 So Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20 Jacob raised a pillar over her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which stands to this day.
21 Israel moved on and pitched his tent on the far side of the tower of Eder.
22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
23 The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
25 The sons of Rachel's servant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
26 The sons of Leah's servant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27 Jacob came home to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived as sojourners.
28 Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years.
29 Then Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.