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1 And God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau thy brother.”

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

3 and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.”

4 And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak[a] which was by Shechem.

5 And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that were around them, and they did not chase after the sons of Jacob.

6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him.

7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el[b]; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

8 And Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth[c].

9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

10 And God said unto him, “Your name is Jacob; your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel shall be your name;” and he called his name Israel.

11 And God said to him, “I am God[d] Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your loins;

12 and the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and to your seed after you I will give the land.”

13 And God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone: and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon.

15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el.

16 And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some distance to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.

17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, “Fear not; for now you shall have another son.”

18 And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni[e]; but his father called him Benjamin[f].

19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).

20 And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.

21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

22 And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

23 the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;

24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid: Dan and Naphtali;

26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.

27 And Jacob came to Isaac his father in Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

29 And Isaac and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

[4] Or, terebinth

[7] That is, The God of Beth-el.

[8] That is, The oak of weeping.

[11] Hebrew El Shaddai.

[18] That is, The son of my sorrow.

[18] That is, The son of the right hand.

[29] That Esau helped bury his father and his head rests in his father’s sealed tomb, alludes to a midrash where Jacob killed Esau.