Gen 35:1-15 | ESV | STEP | God said to Jacob , Arise , go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau .

Genesis 35:1-15

God Blesses and Renames Jacob

1 God 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.” 2 So 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. 3 Then 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.” 4 So 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.

5 And 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. 6 And Jacob came to ⁱLuz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him, 7 and 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. 8 And ^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}

9 God appeared ^{▼▼Or had appeared} to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. 10 And 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. 11 And God said to him, ^q“I am God Almighty: ^{▼▼Hebrew El Shaddai} be ^sfruitful and multiply. ^tA nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body. ^{▼▼Hebrew from your loins} 12 ^vThe land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.” 13 Then God ^wwent up from him in the place where he had spoken with him. 14 And Jacob ^xset up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it. 15 So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him ^yBethel.