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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Genesis 35
³ and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."
⁴ So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
⁵ As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
⁶ So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
⁷ He built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.
⁸ Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.
⁹ Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
¹⁰ God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel.
¹¹ God also said to him, "I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come forth from you.
¹² "The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you."
¹³ Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.