1 And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.
2 Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:
3 And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.
4 Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.
5 So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.
6 And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.
7 And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.
8 And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth.
9 Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,
10 Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel.
11 And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;
12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.
13 Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.
14 And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.
15 And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.
16 So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.
17 And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son.
18 And in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.
19 So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).
20 And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day.
21 And Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the other side of the tower of the flock.
22 Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.
23 Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;
24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali;
26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.
27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.
28 And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.
29 Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.
4 He luovuttivat Jaakobille kaikki hallussaan olevat jumalankuvat sekä renkaat, jotka heillä oli korvissaan, ja Jaakob kätki ne maahan Sikemin luona kasvavan suuren puun alle.
5 Sitten he lähtivät liikkeelle, ja Jumala saattoi ympäristön kaupunkien asukkaat kauhun valtaan, niin etteivät he lähteneet ajamaan takaa Jaakobin poikia.
6 Jaakob ja koko hänen väkensä saapuivat Lusiin eli Beteliin, joka on Kanaaninmaassa.
7 Hän rakensi sinne alttarin ja antoi paikalle nimeksi El-Betel, sillä siellä Jumala oli ilmestynyt hänelle hänen lähdettyään pakoon veljeään.
8 Debora, Rebekan imettäjä, kuoli siellä, ja hänet haudattiin Betelin rinteeseen tammen alle. Puu sai nimekseen Itkutammi.
9 Jaakobin palattua Mesopotamiasta Jumala ilmestyi hänelle vielä uudestaan ja siunasi hänet.
10 Jumala sanoi hänelle: -- Nimesi on Jaakob, mutta nyt saat uuden nimen: kutsuttakoon sinua Israeliksi. Niin hän sai nimekseen Israel.
11 Vielä Jumala sanoi hänelle: -- Minä olen Jumala, Kaikkivaltias. Ole hedelmällinen, ja tulkoon sukusi suureksi. Monet kansat saavat sinusta alkunsa, ja sinusta tulee kuninkaiden kantaisä.
12 Sen maan, jonka lupasin Abrahamille ja Iisakille, minä nyt annan sinulle, ja myös sinun jälkeläisillesi minä annan sen maan.
13 Sitten Jumala lähti Jaakobin luota siitä paikas- ta, missä oli hänelle puhunut.
14 Jaakob pystytti patsaan, muistokiven, siihen kohtaan, missä Jumala oli puhunut hänelle, vuodatti sen päälle viiniä juomauhriksi ja valeli sen öljyl- lä.
15 Ja hän antoi sille paikalle nimen Betel.
16 Sitten he lähtivät liikkeelle Betelistä. Kun vielä oli vähän matkaa Efrataan, Raakelin synnytys alkoi, ja siitä tuli hyvin vaikea.
18 Mutta Raakel oli jo kuolemaisillaan, ja viime hetkellään hän antoi pojalle nimen Benoni. Jaakob kuitenkin antoi hänelle nimeksi Benjamin.
19 Raakel kuoli, ja hänet haudattiin Efratan eli Betlehemin tien varteen.
20 Jaakob pystytti patsaan hänen haudalleen, ja tämä Raakelin hautapatsas on olemassa vielä tänäkin päivänä.
21 Sitten Israel lähti matkaan ja pystytti telttansa Migdal-Ederin tuolle puolen.
22 Hänen asuessaan sillä seudulla Ruuben makasi isänsä sivuvaimon Bilhan kanssa, ja Israel sai tietää siitä. Jaakobilla oli kaksitoista poikaa.
23 Lean poikia olivat Jaakobin esikoinen Ruuben sekä Simeon, Leevi, Juuda, Isaskar ja Sebulon,
24 Raakelin poikia olivat Joosef ja Benjamin,
25 Raakelin orjattaren Bilhan poikia olivat Dan ja Naftali,
26 ja Lean orjattaren Silpan poikia olivat Gad ja Asser. Nämä olivat Jaakobin pojat, jotka syntyivät hänelle Mesopotamiassa.
27 Jaakob saapui isänsä Iisakin luo Mamreen, Kirjat-Arbaan eli Hebroniin, missä Abraham ja Iisak olivat asuneet muukalaisina.
28 Iisak eli satakahdeksankymmentä vuotta.
29 Sitten hän kuoli, ja hänet otettiin isiensä luo korkeassa iässä ja elämästä kyllänsä saaneena. Hänen poikansa Esau ja Jaakob hautasivat hänet.