1And the Lord said to Jakob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto Eloha, who appeared to thee when in thy flight from before Esau thy brother.
2And Jakob said to the men of his house, and to all who were with him, Put away the gentile idols that are among you, and purify; and change your raiment;
3And we will arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar unto Eloha, who heard my prayer in the day of my distress, and whose Word was my helper in the way that I went.
4And they gave Jakob all the gentile idols that were in their hands, and the jewels that were in their ears, and Jakob hid them under the terebinth which was near Shekem.
5And they journeyed; and fear from before the Lord was upon the peoples in the cities surrounding them; and they followed not after the sons of Jakob.
6And Jakob came to Luz, which is in the land of Kenaan, which is Bethel, he and all the people who were with him.
7And he builded there an altar, and called the place El Bethel, because the Angel of the Lord had appeared to him there when he fled from before his brother.
8And Deborah, the nurse of Revekah, died, and was buried below Bethel, in the declivity of the vale; and he called the name of it, The vale of weeping.
9And the Lord appeared unto Jakob again when he had come from Padan Aram, and blessed him.
10And the Lord said to Jakob, Thy name shall be no more Jakob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel.
11And the Lord said to him, I am El Shadai; increase and multiply; a people and an assemblage of tribes shall be from thee, and kings who shall reign over the peoples shall come forth from thee.
12And the land that I gave to Abraham and to Izhak I will give unto thee, and to thy sons after thee, will I give the land.
13And the glory of the Lord ascended above him, in the place where He had spoken with him.
14And Jakob erected a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and outpoured libations upon it, and poured oil thereon.
15And Jakob called the name of the place where the Lord bad spoken with him Bethel.
16And they journeyed from Bethel, and there was yet a space of land to come unto Ephrath; and Rahel travailed, and had hard (pain) in her birth-labour.
17And as she travailed in her labour, the midwife said to her, Fear not, for also this to thee is a son.
18And it was in the going forth of her soul, for she died, that she called his name The son of my woe; but his father called him Benjamin.
19And Rahel died, and was buried in the way of Ephrath, which is Beth-Lechem.
20And Jakob erected a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of the tomb of Rahel unto this day.
21And Israel proceeded and spread his tabernacle beyond the tower of Adar.
22And it was while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, the concubine of his father. And Israel heard it. And the sons of Jakob were twelve.
23The sons of Leah, the firstborn of Jakob, Reuben, and Shemeon, and Levi, and Jehudah, and Issakar, and Zebulon.
24The sons of Rahel, Joseph and Benjamin.
25The sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rahel, Dan and Naphtali;
26and the sons of Zilpha, the handmaid of Leah, Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jakob, who were born to him in Padan Aram.
27And Jakob came unto Izhak his father, unto Mamre, the city of Arba, which is Hebron; for Abraham and Izhak had dwelt there.
28And the days of Izhak were an hundred and eighty years.
29And Izhak expired and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and content with days; and Esau and Jakob his sons buried him.
