^{1 Ref} And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.

^{2 Ref} Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:

^{3 Ref} And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

^{4 Ref} Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.

^{5 Ref} So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.

^{6 Ref} And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.

^{7 Ref} And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.

^{8 Ref} And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth.

^{9 Ref} Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,

^{10 Ref} Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel.

^{11 Ref} And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

^{12 Ref} And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.

^{13 Ref} Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.