1And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.

2Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:

3And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

4Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.

5So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.

6And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.

7And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.

8And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth.

9Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,

10Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel.

11And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

12And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.

13Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.

14And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.

15And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.

16So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.

17And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son.

18And in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.

19So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).

20And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day.

21And Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the other side of the tower of the flock.

22Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

23Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

25The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali;

26The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.

27And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

28And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.

29Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.