And
God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make
there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from
the face of Esau thy brother.
2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all
that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among
you, and be clean, and change your garments:
3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will
make there an altar unto 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 strange gods
which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were
in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by
Shechem.
5 And 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.
6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land
of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were
with him.
7 And he built there an altar, and called the place
Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face
of his brother.
8 But Deborah Rebekahs nurse died, and she was
buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called
Allonbachuth.
9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came
out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
10 And 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.
11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty:
be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of
thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to
thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
13 And God went up from him in the place where he
talked with him.
14 And 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.
15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God
spake with him, Bethel.
16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was
but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had
hard labour.
17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour,
that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in
departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father
called him Benjamin.
19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to
Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is
the pillar of Rachels grave unto this day.
21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond
the tower of Edar.
22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that
land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his fathers concubine: and
Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacobs 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, Rachels handmaid;
Dan, and Naphtali:
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leahs handmaid; Gad,
and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in
Padanaram.
27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre,
unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac
sojourned.
28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and
fourscore years.
29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was
gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons
Esau and Jacob buried him.