Genesis 35:1-15 - Jacob Goes Back To Bethel
1 God said to Jacob: Go to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar to God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
2 Jacob said to his family and those who were with him: Get rid of the foreign gods that you have. Wash yourselves until you are ritually clean. Change your clothes. 3 After that let us go to Bethel. I will make an altar there to God, who answered me when I was troubled and who has been with me wherever I have gone.
4 So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings. He buried them under the oak (big) tree near Shechem. 5 Jacob and his family traveled through Canaan. God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them. 6 Finally, they reached Bethel, also known as Luz. 7 Jacob built an altar there and called it God of Bethel. That was the place where God appeared to him when he was running from Esau.
8 Deborah died. She was the servant who cared for Rebekah from childhood. She was buried near Bethel, under the holy tree. They named it Allon-bacuth (weeping tree).
9 God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram. He blessed him. 10 God said to him: Your name is Jacob. You shall no longer be called Jacob. Israel shall be your name. Thus He called him Israel. 11 God also said: I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and an assembly of nations will come from you. Kings shall come forth from you. 12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. I will give the land to your descendants after you.
13 Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him.
14 So Jacob set up a memorial, a stone marker, to mark the place where God had spoken with him. He poured a wine offering and olive oil on it. 15 Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel (House of God).