Genesis 35:8
World English Bible
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5 They journeyed: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn`t pursue the sons of Jacob.
6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.
7 He 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.
8 Deborah, Rebekah`s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.
9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.
11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.