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.
13. And then God was gone, ascended from the place where he had spoken with him.
14-15. Jacob set up a stone pillar on the spot where God had spoken with him. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. Jacob dedicated the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel (God’s-House).