1. In the meantime God said to Jacob: Arise, and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau thy brother.
2. And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.
3. Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God: who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompanied me in my journey.
4. So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.
5. And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.
6. And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.
7. And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.