Genesis 35:1-15

1Then God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go up to Beth-El and stay there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

2So Jacob said to his household and to everyone who was with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Cleanse yourselves and change your clothes.

3Now let’s get up and go up to Beth-El so that I can make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me in the way that I have gone.”

4So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their hand and the rings in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak tree near Shechem.

5Then they journeyed, and the terror of God was on the cities that were around them, so they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

6Then Jacob arrived at Luz in the land of Canaan (that is Beth-El), he and all the people who were with him.

7He built an altar there and called the place El-Beth-El because God had revealed Himself to him there when he fled from the presence of his brother.

8Then Rebekah’s nurse Deborah died, and was buried below Beth-El, under the oak—so it was named Oak of Weeping.

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

10God said to him: “Your name was Jacob. No longer will your name be Jacob, for your name will be Israel.” So He named him Israel.

11God also said to him: “I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assembly of nations will come from you. From your loins will come forth kings.

12The land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac— I give it to you, and to your seed after you I will give the land.”

13Then God went up from him at the place where He had spoken with him.

14Jacob set up a memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him—a stone pillar—and he poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

15Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Beth-El.