Dual Panel1AND GOD said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. And make there an altar to God Who appeared to you [in a distinct manifestation] when you fled from the presence of Esau your brother.
2Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, Put away the [images of] strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves and change [into fresh] garments;
3Then 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 wherever I went.
4So they [both young men and women] gave to Jacob all the strange gods they had and their earrings which were [worn as charms against evil] in their ears; and Jacob buried {and} hid them under the oak near Shechem.
5And they journeyed and a terror from God fell on the towns round about them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6So Jacob came to Luz, that is, Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people with him.
7There he built an altar, and called the place El-bethel [God of Bethel], for there God revealed Himself to him when he fled from the presence of his brother.
8But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under an oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth [oak of weeping].
9And God [in a distinctly visible manifestation] appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padan-aram, and declared a blessing on him.
10Again God said to him, Your name is Jacob [supplanter]; you shall not be called Jacob any longer, but Israel shall be your name. So He called him Israel [contender with God].
11And God said to him, I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you and kings shall be born of your stock;
12The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and to your descendants after you I will give the land.
13Then God ascended from him in the place where He talked with him.
14And Jacob set up a pillar (monument) in the place where he talked with [God], a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it and he poured oil on it.
15And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him Bethel [house of God].
16And they journeyed from Bethel and had but a little way to go to Ephrath [Bethlehem] when Rachel suffered the pangs of childbirth and had hard labor.
17When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, Do not be afraid; you shall have this son also.
18And as her soul was departing, for she died, she called his name Ben-oni [son of my sorrow]; but his father called him Benjamin [son of the right hand].
19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.
20And Jacob set a pillar (monument) on her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
21Then Israel journeyed on and spread his tent on the other side of the tower of Edar.
22When Israel dwelt there, Reuben [his eldest son] went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob's sons were twelve.
23The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
25The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali.
26And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob born to him in Padan-aram.
27And Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre or Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
28Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.
29And Isaac's spirit departed; he died and was gathered to his people, being an old man, satisfied {and} satiated with days; his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.