And God said unto Jacob, "Arise and get thee up to Bethel, and dwell there. And make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother."

And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number.

And they departed from Bethel, and when he was but a field breadth from Ephrata, Rachel began to travail. And in travailing she was in peril.

And God said unto him, "I am God almighty: grow and multiply; for people and a multitude of people shall spring of thee, yea and kings shall come out of thy loins.

Then as her soul was departing, that she must die: she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.

Then said Jacob unto his household, and to all that were with him, "Put away the strange gods that are among you and make yourselves clean, and change your garments,

And thus died Rachel, and was buried in the way to Ephrata which now is called Bethlehem.

and said unto him, "Thy name is Jacob. Notwithstanding thou shalt be no more called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name." And so was his name called Israel.

And God appeared unto Jacob again after he came out of Mesopotamia, and blessed him,

Then died Debora, Rebekah's nurse, and was buried beneath Bethel under an oak. And the name of it was called the oak of lamentation.

The sons of Lea: Reuben, Jacob's eldest son, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon.

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were under their hands, and all their earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under an oak at Shechem.

Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.

And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because that God appeared unto him there, when he fled from his brother.

and then fell he sick and died, and was put unto his people being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

And Jacob set up a mark in the place where he talked with him; even a pillar of stone, and poured drink offering thereon and poured also oil thereon,

And Israel went thence and pitched up his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

And they departed. And the fear of God fell upon the cities that were round about them, that they durst not follow after the sons of Jacob.

So came Jacob to Luz in the land of Canaan, otherwise called Bethel, with all the people that was with him.

And as she was in pains of her labour, the midwife said unto her, "Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also."

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

and let us arise and go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there, unto God which heard me in the day of my tribulation and was with me in the way which I went."

And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years:

The sons of Zilpah, Lea's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons which were born him in Mesopotamia.

The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali.

And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, will I give unto thee, and unto thy seed after thee will I give it also."

And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave, which is called Rachel's grave pillar unto this day.

and called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.

And God departed from him in the place where he talked with him.