1. About this time, God said to Jacob, "Arise and go up to Bethel, and live there, and make an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
2. In truth, Jacob, having called together all his house, said: "Cast away the foreign gods that are in your midst and be cleansed, and also change your garments.
3. Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, so that we may make an altar there to God, who heeded me in the day of my tribulation, and who accompanied me on my journey."
4. Therefore, they gave him all the foreign gods which they had, and the earrings which were in their ears. And then he buried them under the terebinth tree, which is beyond the city of Shechem.
5. And when they had set out, the terror of God invaded all the surrounding cities, and they dared not pursue them as they withdrew.
6. And so, Jacob arrived at Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, also named Bethel: he and all the people with him.
7. And he built an altar there, and he called the name of that place, 'House of God.' For there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.
8. About the same time, Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died, and she was buried at the base of Bethel, under an oak tree. And the name of that place was called, 'Oak of Weeping.'
9. Then God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,
10. saying: "You will no longer be called Jacob, for your name shall be Israel." And he called him Israel,
11. and he said to him: "I am Almighty God: increase and multiply. Tribes and peoples of nations will be from you, and kings will go forth from your loins.
12. And the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your offspring after you."
13. And he withdrew from him.