Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to ^aBethel and live there, and make an altar there to ^bGod, who appeared to you ^cwhen you fled ¹from your brother Esau.” 2 So Jacob said to his ^ahousehold and to all who were with him, “Remove ^bthe foreign gods which are among you, and ^cpurify yourselves and change your garments; 3 and let’s arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make ^aan altar there to God, ^bwho answered me on the day of my distress and ^chas been with me ¹wherever I have gone.” 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which ¹they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the ²oak which was near Shechem.

5 As they journeyed, there was ^1aa great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to ^aLuz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7 Then ^ahe built an altar there, and called the place ¹El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled ²from his brother. 8 Now ^aDeborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was named ¹Allon-bacuth.

9 Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He ^ablessed him. 10 ^aGod said to him,“Your name is Jacob;¹You shall no longer be called Jacob,But Israel shall be your name.”So He called ²him Israel. 11 God also said to him,“I am ^1aGod Almighty;^bBe fruitful and multiply;A nation and a ^cmultitude of nations shall ²come from you,And ^dkings shall ³come from ⁴you.

13 Then ^aGod went up from him at the place where He had spoken with him. 14 So Jacob set up ^aa memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him, a memorial of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. 15 And Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, ^1aBethel.

16 Then they journeyed on from Bethel; but when there was still some distance to go to ^aEphrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe difficulties in her labor. 17 And when she was suffering severe difficulties in her labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for ^ayou have another son!” 18 And it came about, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him ¹Ben-oni; but his father called him ²Benjamin. 19 So ^aRachel died and was buried on the way to ^bEphrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 And Jacob set up a memorial stone over her grave; that is the ^amemorial stone of Rachel’s grave to this day. 21 Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the ^1atower of ²Eder.

22 And it came about, while Israel was living in that land, that ^aReuben went and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Now there were twelve sons of Jacob— 23 ^athe sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; 24 ^athe sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin; 25 and ^athe sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s female slave, were Dan and Naphtali; 26 and ^athe sons of Zilpah, Leah’s female slave, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

27 Jacob came to his father Isaac at ^aMamre of ^bKiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided.

28 Now the days of Isaac were ^a180 years. 29 Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was ^agathered to his people, an ^bold man ¹of ripe age; and ^chis sons Esau and Jacob buried him.