1Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”[ † ]Genesis 28:19Genesis 31:13Genesis 28:13Genesis 27:43
2So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.[ † ]Genesis 18:19Joshua 24:15Genesis 31:19-30, 34Joshua 24:2-14, 23Exodus 19:10-14Leviticus 13:6 3Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”[ † ]Genesis 32:7-24Psalms 107:6Genesis 28:15-20Genesis 31:3-42
4So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.[ † ]Hosea 2:13Joshua 24:26Judges 9:6
5As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.[ † ]Exodus 15:16Exodus 23:27Deuteronomy 2:25Deuteronomy 11:25Joshua 2:91 Samuel 14:15 6So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.[ † ]Genesis 28:19-22Genesis 48:3 7There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.[ † ]Genesis 33:20Genesis 35:3Ecclesiastes 5:4Genesis 28:13
8Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.[ † ]Genesis 24:59
9After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.[ † ]Joshua 5:13Daniel 10:5Genesis 32:29Hosea 12:4 10And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.[ † ]Genesis 17:5Genesis 32:28
11And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.[ † ]Genesis 17:1Genesis 28:3Genesis 48:3-4Exodus 6:3Genesis 9:1-7Genesis 17:5-6, 16Genesis 48:4 12The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”[ † ]Genesis 12:7Genesis 13:15Genesis 26:3-4Genesis 28:13Genesis 48:4Exodus 32:13
13Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.[ † ]Genesis 17:22Genesis 18:33
14So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.[ † ]Genesis 28:18-19Genesis 31:45 15Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.[ † ]Genesis 28:19
16Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult. 17During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”[ † ]Genesis 30:241 Samuel 4:20
18And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).[ † ]Genesis 48:7Ruth 1:2Ruth 4:11Micah 5:2Matthew 2:6 20Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.[ † ]1 Samuel 10:2
21Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.[ † ]Micah 4:8
22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:[ † ]Genesis 49:41 Chronicles 5:1 23The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.[ † ]Genesis 29:31-35Genesis 30:18-20Genesis 46:8Exodus 1:1-4 24The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. 25The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
26And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.[ † ]Genesis 13:18Genesis 18:1Genesis 23:19Joshua 14:15
28And Isaac lived 180 years. 29Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.[ † ]Genesis 15:15Genesis 25:8Genesis 49:33Genesis 25:9Genesis 49:31