Jacob Returns to Bethel
And God said to Jacob, “Rise, go up to Bethel and live there; and make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
And Jacob said to his house and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your garments.
And let us rise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress, and who has been with me on the way that I have gone.”
And they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob buried them under the terebinth that is near Shechem.
And they journeyed. And a terror of God was on the cities around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan — that is, Bethel — he and all the people who were with him.
And he built an altar there and called the place El-bethel, for there God had been revealed to him when he fled from the face of his brother.
And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel, under the oak; and its name was called Allon-bacuth.
And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.
And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” And he called his name Israel.
And God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, and an assembly of nations, shall come from you, and kings shall come out of your loins.
And the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac — to you I will give it, and to your seed after you I will give the land.”
And God went up from him, in the place where he had spoken with him.
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him — a pillar of stone — and he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
And Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
Benjamin Born, Rachel Dies
And they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was still a stretch of land to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor — and her labor was hard.
And it happened, when her labor was hardest, that the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for this one also is a son for you.”
And it happened, as her life was going out — for she was dying — that she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
And Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath — that is, Bethlehem.
And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
The Sons of Jacob
And Israel journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder.
And it happened, while Israel was living in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine — and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn; and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.
The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant: Dan and Naphtali.
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
The Death of Isaac
And Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba — that is, Hebron — where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
And Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.