3Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
4They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
5They journeyed: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn`t pursue the sons of Jacob.
6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.
7He built an altar there, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8Deborah, Rebekah`s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.
9God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
