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¹ AND God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and build there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the presence of your brother Esau.² Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;³ And let us arise and go up to Beth-el; and I will build there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the journey that I took.⁴ So they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their possession, and the earrings that were in their ears; and Jacob buried them under the oak which was by Shechem.⁵ And they journeyed; and the fear of God fell upon the towns that were round about them, and they did not pursue after Jacob and his sons.

⁶ So Jacob came to Luz, that is Beth-el, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people that were with him.⁷ And he built there an altar, and called the place Beth-el (the house of God), because there God appeared to him when he fled from the presence of his brother Esau.⁸ Then Deborah Rebekahs nurse died, and she was buried below Bethel under an oak; so the name of the oak was called Betemtha dabkhatha (the oak of weeping).⁹ And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan-aram, and blessed him.¹⁰ And God said to him. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; so he called his name Israel.¹¹ And God said to him. I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply: a people and a multitude of peoples shall come from you, and kings shall come out of your loins;¹² And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your descendants after you will I give the land.¹³ And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.¹⁴ And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.¹⁵ And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el.

¹⁶ And they journeyed from Bethel, and continued until they came within the distance of a mile from the entrance to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor while she was being delivered.¹⁷ And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this one also is a son for you.¹⁸ And it came to pass, as her soul was departing and she was dying, she called the childs name Bar-kebai (the Son of My Sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin (the Son of My Right Hand).¹⁹ And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.²⁰ And Jacob set up a pillar upon the grave of Rachel; that is the pillar of Rachels grave to this day.

²¹ And Israel journeyed, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gadar.²² And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his fathers concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:²³ The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacobs first-born, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.²⁴ And the sons of Rachel: Joseph, and Benjamin.²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachels maid: Dan, and Naphtali.²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leahs maid: Gad, and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-aram.²⁷ And Jacob came to his father Isaac to Mamre, to Koriath Gabarey, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.²⁸ And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.²⁹ Then Isaac grew weak and died; and he was gathered to his people, being very old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him in the burial ground which his father Abraham had purchased.