God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and live there. Make there an altar to God who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothing.
Let’s arise and go up to Bethel. I will make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me on whichever road I traveled.”
They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak that was by Shechem.
They traveled, and a terror from God was on the cities that were around them so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), that is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
He built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because there God was revealed to him when he fled from the face of his brother.
Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon-bacuth.
God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name will not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.
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.
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give it to you, and to your seed after you I will give the land.”
God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
Jacob set up a standing-stone in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel.”
The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
When she was in hard labor the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
It came to pass as her soul was departing (for she died) that she named him Benoni; but his father named him Benjamin.
Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (which is Bethlehem).
Jacob set up a standing-stone on her grave, which is the standing-stone marking of Rachel’s grave to this day.
Israel traveled and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
It came to pass while Israel lived 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 12.
The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s slave): Dan and Naphtali.
The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s slave): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
The days of Isaac were 180 years.
Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.