Genesis
35:1-15 New King James Version (NKJV)

Jacob’s Return to Bethel
35 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 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; your name shall not 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.” 13 Then God went up from him in the place where He talked with him.
14 So Jacob set
up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering
on it, and he poured oil on it. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him,
Bethel.