Genesis 35:1-12

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

2  And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

3  “Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.”

4  So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and all the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.

5  And they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

6  So Jacob came to Luz (That is Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

7  And he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

8  Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the terebinth tree.  So the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.

9  Then God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan Aram, and blessed him.

10  And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; you name shall no be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name.” So He called his name Israel.

11  Also God said to him: “I am God Almighty.  Be fruitful and multiply;  a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.

12  “The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you  I give this land.”