1God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there, and make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from the face of your brother Esau.2Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, Remove the foreign gods that are in your midst, purify yourselves, and change your garments.3Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me on the way that I went.4They gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem.5They set out, and a terror of God was upon the cities around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.6Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (that is, Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.7He built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because God had appeared to him there when he fled from the face of his brother.8Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under the oak, and its name was called Allon-bacuth.9God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan Aram, and he blessed him.10God said to him, Your name is Jacob; you shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name. So he called his name Israel.11God said to him, "I am God, the Almighty; be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your loins."12The land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.13God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him.14Jacob set up a pillar at the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.15Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.