3 We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone.”
4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and also the earrings that they were wearing. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.
5 When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.
6 Jacob came with all his people to Luz, which is now known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan.
7 He built an altar there and named the place after the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother.
8 Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was named “Oak of Weeping”.
9 When Jacob returned from Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him.