Genesis 35:1-15

1God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

2So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

3We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

4Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.

5When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

6So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

7Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

8Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.

9God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.

10God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.

11God also said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you.

12I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac. And I will give the land to your future descendants.”

13Then God withdrew from him at the place where he had spoken to him.

14Jacob set up a marker at the place where he had spoken to him — a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

15Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.