1 God said to Jacob, "Go to Bethel at once, and live there. Build an alter there to me, the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau."
2 So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes. 3 We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an alter to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with my everywhere I have gone." 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had also the earnings that they were earning. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.
5 When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fellon the people of nearby towns, and they did not pursue them. 6 Jacob came with all his people to Luz, which is now known s Bethel, in the land of Canaan. 7 He built an alter there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother. 8 Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel,. So it was named "Oak of Weeping."
9 When Jacob returned from Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him. 10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but from now on it will be Israel." So God named him Israel. 11 And God said to him, "I am Almighty God. Have mny children. Nations will be descended from you, and you will be the ancestor of kings. 12 I will give you the land which I gave to Abraham and to Issac, and I will also give it to your descendants after you" 13 Then God left him. 15 There, where God hd spoken to him, Jacob set up a memorial stone and conscreated it by pouring wine and olive oil on it. 15 He named the place Bethel.
2 So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes. 3 We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an alter to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with my everywhere I have gone." 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had also the earnings that they were earning. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.
5 When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fellon the people of nearby towns, and they did not pursue them. 6 Jacob came with all his people to Luz, which is now known s Bethel, in the land of Canaan. 7 He built an alter there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother. 8 Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel,. So it was named "Oak of Weeping."
9 When Jacob returned from Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him. 10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but from now on it will be Israel." So God named him Israel. 11 And God said to him, "I am Almighty God. Have mny children. Nations will be descended from you, and you will be the ancestor of kings. 12 I will give you the land which I gave to Abraham and to Issac, and I will also give it to your descendants after you" 13 Then God left him. 15 There, where God hd spoken to him, Jacob set up a memorial stone and conscreated it by pouring wine and olive oil on it. 15 He named the place Bethel.