1And 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.
2Then 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:
3And 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.
4Then 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.
5So 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.
6And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.
7And 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.
