5. While Jacob and his family were travelling through Canaan, God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them.
6. Finally, they reached Bethel, also known as Luz.
7. Jacob built an altar there and called it “God of Bethel”, because that was the place where God had appeared to him when he was running from Esau.
8. While they were there, Rebekah's personal servant Deborah died. They buried her under an oak tree and called it “Weeping Oak”.
9-11. After Jacob came back to the land of Canaan, God appeared to him again. This time he gave Jacob a new name and blessed him by saying:I am God All-Powerful, and from now on your name will be Israel instead of Jacob. You will have many children. Your descendants will become nations, and some of the men in your family will even be kings.
12. I will give you the land that I promised Abraham and Isaac, and it will belong to your family for ever.
13. After God had gone,
14. Jacob set up a large rock, so that he would remember what had happened there. Then he poured wine and olive oil on the rock to show that it was dedicated to God,