5. When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
6. So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel ) in the land of Canaan.
7. Jacob built an altar there and called the place God of Bethel because it was there that God had revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8. Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Oak of Weeping.
9. God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
10. God said to him:Your name is Jacob;you will no longer be named Jacob,but your name will be Israel. So He named him Israel.
11. God also said to him:I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations,will come from you, and kings will descend from you.
12. I will give to you the landthat I gave to Abraham and Isaac. And I will give the landto your future descendants.