1And God said unto Jacob , Arise , go up to Beth-el , and dwell there : and make there an altar unto God , who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 2Then Jacob said unto his household , and to all that were with him , Put away the foreign gods that are among you , and purify yourselves , and change your garments : 3and let us arise , and go up to Beth-el ; and I will make there an altar unto God , who answered me in the day of my distress , and was with me in the way which I went . 4And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand , and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem . 5And they journeyed : and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them , and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob .
The Death of Deborah and the Birth of Benjamin
6So Jacob came to Luz , which is in the land of Canaan ( the same is Beth-el ), he and all the people that were with him . 7And he built there an altar , and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him , when he fled from the face of his brother. 8And Deborah Rebekah ’s nurse died , and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth. 9And God appeared unto Jacob again , when he came from Paddan-aram , and blessed him . 10And God said unto him , Thy name is Jacob : thy name shall not be called any more Jacob , but Israel shall be thy name : and he called his name Israel . 11And God said unto him , I am God Almighty : be fruitful and multiply ; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee , and kings shall come out of thy loins ; 12and the land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac , to thee I will give it , and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. 13And God went up from him in the place where he spake with him . 14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spake with him , a pillar of stone: and he poured out a drink-offering thereon , and poured oil thereon . 15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him , Beth-el . 16And they journeyed from Beth-el ; and there was still some distance to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed , and she had hard labor . 17And it came to pass , when she was in hard labor , that the midwife said unto her , Fear not ; for now thou shalt have another son . 18And it came to pass , as her soul was departing ( for she died ), that she called his name Ben-oni : but his father called him Benjamin . 19And Rachel died , and was buried in the way to Ephrath ( the same is Beth-lehem ). 20And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave : the same is the Pillar of Rachel ’s grave unto this day . 21And Israel journeyed , and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder .
The Death of Isaac
22And it came to pass , while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father ’s concubine : and Israel heard of it . Now the sons of Jacob were twelve : 23the sons of Leah : Reuben , Jacob ’s first-born, and Simeon , and Levi , and Judah , and Issachar , and Zebulun ; 24the sons of Rachel : Joseph and Benjamin ; 25and the sons of Bilhah , Rachel ’s handmaid : Dan and Naphtali ; 26and the sons of Zilpah , Leah ’s handmaid : Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob , that were born to him in Paddan-aram . 27And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre , to Kiriath-arba ( the same is Hebron ), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned . 28And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years . 29And Isaac gave up the ghost , and died , and was gathered unto his people , old and full of days : and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him .