3. Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
4. They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
5. They travelled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.
6. So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
7. He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8. Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
9. God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
10. God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.
11. God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
12. The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”