1 Then God said to Jacob, "Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau."2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.3 Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone."4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.5 Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.6 Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.7 There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, "because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.8 Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth. [^2]9 After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, "God appeared to him again and blessed him.10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, "but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel. "" So he named him Israel.11 And God said to him, "I am God Almighty "; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you."13 Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.14 Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.15 Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel. [^7]16 Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.17 And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, "Don't despair, for you have another son."18 As she breathed her last —for she was dying —she named her son Ben-Oni. "But his father named him Benjamin. [^9]19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).20 Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel's tomb.21 Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.25 The sons of Rachel's servant Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali.26 The sons of Leah's servant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.27 Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.28 Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years.29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

1 Interea locutus est Deus ad Jacob : Surge, et ascende Bethel, et habita ibi, facque altare Deo qui apparuit tibi quando fugiebas Esau fratrem tuum. 2 Jacob vero convocata omni domo sua, ait : Abjicite deos alienos qui in medio vestri sunt, et mundamini, ac mutate vestimenta vestra. 3 Surgite, et ascendamus in Bethel, ut faciamus ibi altare Deo : qui exaudivit me in die tribulationis me, et socius fuit itineris mei. 4 Dederunt ergo ei omnes deos alienos quos habebant, et inaures qu erant in auribus eorum : at ille infodit ea subter terebinthum, qu est post urbem Sichem. 5 Cumque profecti essent, terror Dei invasit omnes per circuitum civitates, et non sunt ausi persequi recedentes. 6 Venit igitur Jacob Luzam, qu est in terra Chanaan, cognomento Bethel : ipse et omnis populus cum eo. 7 dificavitque ibi altare, et appellavit nomen loci illius, Domus Dei : ibi enim apparuit ei Deus cum fugeret fratrem suum. 8 Eodem tempore mortua est Debora nutrix Rebecc, et sepulta est ad radices Bethel subter quercum : vocatumque est nomen loci illius, Quercus fletus. 9 Apparuit autem iterum Deus Jacob postquam reversus est de Mespotamia Syri, benedixitque ei 10 dicens : Non vocaberis ultra Jacob, sed Isral erit nomen tuum. Et appellavit eum Isral, 11 dixitque ei : Ego Deus omnipotens : cresce, et multiplicare : gentes et populi nationum ex te erunt, reges de lumbis tuis egredientur, 12 terramque quam dedi Abraham et Isaac, dabo tibi et semini tuo post te. 13 Et recessit ab eo. 14 Ille vero erexit titulum lapideum in loco quo locutus fuerat ei Deus : libans super eum libamina, et effundens oleum : 15 vocansque nomen loci illius Bethel.16 Egressus autem inde, venit verno tempore ad terram qu ducit Ephratam : in qua cum parturiret Rachel, 17 ob difficultatem partus periclitari cpit. Dixitque ei obstetrix : Noli timere, quia et hunc habebis filium. 18 Egrediente autem anima pr dolore, et imminente jam morte, vocavit nomen filii sui Benomi, id est, Filius doloris mei : pater vero appellavit eum Benjamin, id est, Filius dextr. 19 Mortua est ergo Rachel, et sepulta est in via qu ducit Ephratam, hc est Bethlehem. 20 Erexitque Jacob titulum super sepulchrum ejus : hic est titulus monumenti Rachel, usque in prsentem diem. 21 Egressus inde, fixit tabernaculum trans Turrem gregis. 22 Cumque habitaret in illa regione, abiit Ruben, et dormivit cum Bala concubina patris sui : quod illum minime latuit. Erant autem filii Jacob duodecim. 23 Filii Li : primogenitus Ruben, et Simeon, et Levi, et Judas, et Issachar, et Zabulon. 24 Filii Rachel : Joseph et Benjamin. 25 Filii Bal ancill Rachelis : Dan et Nephthali. 26 Filii Zelph ancill Li : Gad et Aser : hi sunt filii Jacob, qui nati sunt ei in Mesopotamia Syri.27 Venit etiam ad Isaac patrem suum in Mambre, civitatem Arbee, hc est Hebron, in qua peregrinatus est Abraham et Isaac. 28 Et completi sunt dies Isaac centum octoginta annorum. 29 Consumptusque tate mortuus est : et appositus est populo suo senex et plenus dierum : et sepelierunt eum Esau et Jacob filii sui.