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.