Genesis 35 Then God said to Jacob, arise and go to the place Bethel and dwell there. And erect there an altar to the God who appeared to thee, when thou wast fleeing from the face of thy brother Esau.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then God said to Jacob, arise and go to the place Bethel and dwell there. And erect there an altar to the God who appeared to thee, when thou wast fleeing from the face of thy brother Esau. ² Thereupon Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods which are with you and purify yourselves and change your garments; ³ and let us arise and go to Bethel and build there an altar to the God who hearkened to me in a day of distress; who was with me and preserved me in the way in which I went. ⁴ So they gave Jacob the strange gods, which were in their hands and the ear rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them in the pine grove, which was in the country of the Sekimites and destroyed them even to this day. ⁵ Then Israel removed from the country of the Sekimites; and a terror of God was on all the cities around them, so that they did not pursue the children of Israel. ⁶ And when Jacob came to Louza which is in the land of Chanaan, the same is Baithel, he and all the people who were with him, ⁷ he built there an altar, and called the name of the place Baithel; because God appeared to him there, when he was fleeing from the face of his brother Esau. ⁸ And Debbora the nurse of Rebekka died and was buried under the Oak below Baithel. So Jacob called its name Oak of mourning. ⁹ And God appeared to Jacob again at Louza after he came from Syrian Mesopotamia, and God blessed him ¹⁰ and God said to him, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob; but Israel shall be thy name. So he called his name Israel. ¹¹ And God said to him, I am thy God. Increase and multiply. Of thee shall be nations and collections of nations; and kings shall spring from thy loins. ¹² And this land, which I gave to Abraham and Isaak, I have given to thee. To thee it shall belong: and to thy seed after thee I will give this land. ¹³ And when God ascended from him; from the place where he had spoken with him, ¹⁴ Jacob set up a pillar; a stone pillar in the place where God spoke to him; and he made a libation thereon and poured oil upon it. ¹⁵ And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Baithel. ¹⁶ And Jacob removed from Baithel and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader. And when he was near Chabratha on the way to Ephratha, Rachel was taken in labour and had a hard delivery. ¹⁷ And when she was in the sharp pangs of child birth, the midwife said to her, Courage; for this also is a son for thee. ¹⁸ And just as she was departing [for she died] she called his name Sun of my sorrow; but his father called his name Benjamin. ¹⁹ And Rachel died and was buried in the race ground of Ephratha, which is Bethlehem. ²⁰ And Jacob erected a pillar over her grave. The same is the pillar of Rachel's grave even to this day. ²¹ [Omitted] ²² And while Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went and lay with Balla the concubine of his father Jacob, and Israel heard of it, and it appeared evil in his sight. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. ²³ The sons of Leia, Reuben, Jacob's first born, Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Zabulon: ²⁴ and the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin; ²⁵ and the sons of Balla, Rachel's handmaid, Dan and Nephthaleim: ²⁶ and the sons of Zelpha, Leia's handmaid, Gad and Aser. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Syrian Mesopotamia. ²⁷ Then Jacob went to his father Isaak, to Mambre, a city of the plain, the same is Chebron in the land of Chanaan, where Abraham and Isaak had sojourned. ²⁸ Now the days which Isaak lived were one hundred and eighty years. ²⁹ And Isaak fainting away died and was added to his race being an old man and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.