1 God said to Jacob, 'Get up, go to Bethel, and dwell there, and build there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the presence of Esau your brother.'

2 And Jacob said to his house, and to all that were with him, Cast away the strange gods that are with you, and be cleansed, and change your garments;

3 Let us arise and go to Bethel; there I will build an altar to God, who heard me in the day of my affliction, and was with me in the way I walked.

4 And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hands, and the earrings that were in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak that is near Shechem. [And left them unknown even to this day.]

5 And they departed [from Shechem]. And there was terror of God in the cities round about, and they did not persecute the children of Jacob.

6 And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, to Bethel, himself, and all the people who were with him,

7 And he built an altar there, and called the place El-Bethel, for it was there that God appeared to him, as he fled from the presence of his brother.

8 And Deborah the nurse of Rebecca died, and was buried below Bethel under the oak tree, which Jacob called the oak of weeping.

9 And God appeared to Jacob after he had returned from Mesopotamia, and blessed him,

10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob; From now on you will not be called Jacob, but your name will be Israel. And he called his name Israel.

11 And God said unto him, 'I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply; The people and the multitude of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give thee, and to thy seed after thee I will give this land.

13 And God came up from him from the place where he had spoken to him.

14 And Jacob set up a monument in the place where [God] spoke to him, a monument of stone, and poured a drink offering on it, and poured oil upon it;