1. And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
2. Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
3. And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
4. And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and the ear-rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
5. And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that were round them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
6. So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (that is Beth-el) he and all the people that were with him.
7. And he erected there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8. But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el, under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
9. And God appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padan-aram; and blessed him.
10. And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel.
11. And God said to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a multitude of nations shall spring from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
12. And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
13. And God went up from him, in the place where he talked with him.
14. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink-offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
15. And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el.