1. God spoke to Jacob: “Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau.”
11-12. God continued,I am The Strong God.Have children! Flourish!A nation—a whole company of nations!—will come from you.Kings will come from your loins;the land I gave Abraham and IsaacI now give to you,and pass it on to your descendants.