1God 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.« 2Jacob 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.« 4So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings. He buried them under the oak big tree near Shechem. 5Jacob and his family traveled through Canaan. God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them. 6Finally, they reached Bethel, also known as Luz. 7Jacob 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. 8Deborah 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. 9God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram. He blessed him. 10God said to him: »Your name is Jacob. You shall no longer be called Jacob. Israel shall be your name.« Thus He called him Israel. 11God 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.« 13Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him. 14So 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. 15Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel House of God. 16After that they moved from Bethel. When there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. She had severe labor pains. 17When one of her pains hit, the midwife said: »Do not be afraid. You have another son!« 18Rachel was dying! With her last breath she named her son Ben-oni Son of My Sorrow, but his father named him Benjamin Son of My Right Hand. 19Rachel died and was buried on the way to Bethlehem Ephrath. 20Jacob set up a stone as a marker for her grave. The same marker is at Rachel’s grave today. 21Israel moved on again. He pitched his tent by the tower of Eder. 22While Israel lived in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father’s concubine Bilhah. Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons. 23The sons of Leah were Jacob’s firstborn Reuben, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 24The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. 25The sons of Rachel’s slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali. 26The sons of Leah’s slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob’s sons, who were born in Paddan-aram. 27Jacob came home to his father Isaac, to Mamre’s city, Kiriath-arba Hebron. Abraham and Isaac had lived there for a while. 28Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old. 29Isaac took his last breath and died. He joined his ancestors in death at a very old age. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.