^{1 Ref} And God saith unto Jacob, `Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.'

^{2 Ref} And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who `are' with him, `Turn aside the gods of the stranger which `are' in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

^{3 Ref} and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'

^{4 Ref} And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that `are' in their hand, and the rings that `are' in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which `is' by Shechem;

^{5 Ref} and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which `are' round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.

^{6 Ref} And Jacob cometh in to Luz which `is' in the land of Canaan (it `is' Bethel), he and all the people who `are' with him,

^{7 Ref} and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.

^{8 Ref} And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name `Oak of weeping.'

^{9 Ref} And God appeareth unto Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him;

^{10 Ref} and God saith to him, `Thy name `is' Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;' and He calleth his name Israel.

^{11 Ref} And God saith to him, `I `am' God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out;

^{12 Ref} and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac -- to thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.'

^{13 Ref} And God goeth up from him, in the place where He hath spoken with him.