Genesis 35:1-15 - Jacob Goes Back To Bethel

¹ 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."

² 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, ³ 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."

⁴ 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. ⁵ 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. ⁶ So came Jacob to Luz in the land of Canaan, otherwise called Bethel, with all the people that was with him. ⁷ And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because that God appeared unto him there, when he fled from his brother.

⁸ 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.

⁹ And God appeared unto Jacob again after he came out of Mesopotamia, and blessed him, ¹⁰ 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. ¹¹ 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. ¹² 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."

¹³ And God departed from him in the place where he talked with him.

¹⁴ 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, ¹⁵ and called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.