5. and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6. Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
7. He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8. (Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named Oak of Weeping.)
9. God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.
10. God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.
11. Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!
12. The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”
13. Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.
14. So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.
15. Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.
16. They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor – and her labor was hard.
17. When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.”
18. With her dying breath, she named him Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.