3. We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone.”
4. So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and also the earrings that they were wearing. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.
5. When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.
6. Jacob came with all his people to Luz, which is now known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan.
7. He built an altar there and named the place after the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother.
8. Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was named “Oak of Weeping”.