3. Afterwards, we'll go to Bethel. I will build an altar there for God, who answered my prayers when I was in trouble and who has always been at my side.
4. So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings, and he buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.
5. While Jacob and his family were travelling through Canaan, God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them.
6. Finally, they reached Bethel, also known as Luz.
7. Jacob built an altar there and called it “God of Bethel”, because that was the place where God had appeared to him when he was running from Esau.
8. While they were there, Rebekah's personal servant Deborah died. They buried her under an oak tree and called it “Weeping Oak”.
12. I will give you the land that I promised Abraham and Isaac, and it will belong to your family for ever.
13. After God had gone,
14. Jacob set up a large rock, so that he would remember what had happened there. Then he poured wine and olive oil on the rock to show that it was dedicated to God,
15. and he named the place Bethel.
16. Jacob and his family had left Bethel and were still a long way from Ephrath, when the time came for Rachel's baby to be born.
17. She was having a rough time, but the woman who was helping her said, “Don't worry! It's a boy.”
18. Rachel was at the point of death, and just before dying, she said, “I'll name him Benoni.” But Jacob called him Benjamin.
19. Rachel was buried beside the road to Ephrath, which is also called Bethlehem.
20. Jacob set up a tombstone over her grave, and it is still there.
21. Jacob, also known as Israel, travelled to the south of Eder Tower, where he set up camp.