1 And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, that appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother. Compare verse
2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: Compare verse1 commentary
3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. Compare verse
4 And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. Compare verse
5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. Compare verse
6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. Compare verse1 commentary
7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. Compare verse1 commentary
8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. Compare verse1 commentary
9 And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. Compare verse
10 And God said to him, Your name is Jacob: your name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be your name: and he called his name Israel. Compare verse1 commentary
11 And God said to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of you, and kings shall come out of your loins; Compare verse
12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your seed after you will I give the land. Compare verse
13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. Compare verse
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. Compare verse1 commentary
15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel. Compare verse
16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. Compare verse1 commentary
17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; you shall have this son also. Compare verse
18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin. Compare verse1 commentary
19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. Compare verse
20 And Jacob set a pillar on her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. Compare verse
22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelled in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: Compare verse
23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: Compare verse
24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: Compare verse
25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: Compare verse
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram. Compare verse
27 And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre, to the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. Compare verse
28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. Compare verse
29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. Compare verse