Genesis 35:1-10

God Blesses and Renames Jacob

1God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to aBethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you bwhen you fled from your brother Esau.” 2So Jacob said to his chousehold and to all who were with him, “Put away dthe foreign gods that are among you and epurify yourselves and change your garments. 3Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God fwho answers me in the day of my distress and ghas been with me wherever I have gone.” 4So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under hthe terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

5And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 6And Jacob came to iLuz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him, 7and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,
 El-bethel means God of Bethel
because kthere God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
8And lDeborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.
 Allon-bacuth means oak of weeping


9God appeared
Or had appeared
to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
10And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; ono longer shall your name be called Jacob, but pIsrael shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel.
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