1 And God said to Jacob, “Rise, go up to Bethel, and stay there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you in your fleeing from the face of your brother Esau.” 2 And Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments. 3 And we will rise, and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my tribulation, and is with me in the way that I have gone.” 4 And they gave to Jacob all the gods of the stranger that were in their hand, and the rings that 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 on the cities which were around them, and they had not pursued after the sons of Jacob. 6 And Jacob came to Luz which was in the land of Canaan (it was Bethel), he and all the people who were with him, 7 and he built there an altar, and proclaimed at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed to him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother. 8 And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he called its name “Oak of Weeping.” 9 And God appears to Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blessed him. 10 And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob: your name is no longer called Jacob, but Israel is your name.” And He called his name Israel. 11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from you, and kings from your loins go out. 12 And the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac—to you I give it, indeed to your seed after you I give the land.” 13 And God goes up from him, in the place where He had spoken with him. 14 And Jacob set up a standing pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he poured on it an oblation, and he poured on it oil. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoken with him Bethel. 16 And they journeyed from Bethel, and there is yet a distance of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel bears, and was sharply pained in her bearing. 17 And it came to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for this also is a son for you.” 18 And it came to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni. And his father called him Benjamin. 19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephratha, which was Beth-Lehem, 20 and Jacob set up a standing pillar over her grave. Which is the standing pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. 21 And Israel journeyed, and stretched out his tent beyond the Tower of Edar. 22 And it came to pass in Israel’s staying in that land, that Reuben goes, and lay with his father’s concubine Bilhah. And Israel heard. 23 And the sons of Jacob were twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob’s firstborn Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. 24 Sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 25 And sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant: Dan and Naphtali. 26 And sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant: Gad and Asher. These were sons of Jacob, who had been born to him in Padan-Aram. 27 And Jacob had come to his father Isaac, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which was Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. 28 And the days of Isaac were 180 years, 29 and Isaac breathed his last, and died, and was gathered to his people, aged and satisfied with days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.