²⁰ Jacob also ^(A)made a vow, saying, “^(B)If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I ^[a]take, and give me ^[b](C)food to eat and garments to wear, ²¹ and ^(D)I return to my father’s house in ^[c]safety, ^(E)then the Lord will be my God. ²² And this stone, which I have set up as a memorial stone, ^(F)will be God’s house, and ^(G)of everything that You give me I will assuredly give a tenth to You.”

¹³ I am ^(A)the God of Bethel, where you ^(B)anointed a memorial stone, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, ^[a]leave this land, and ^(C)return to the land of your birth.’”

¹⁷ But Jacob journeyed to ^[a](A)Succoth, and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.

Jacob Settles in Shechem

¹⁸ Now Jacob came safely to the city of ^(B)Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from ^(C)Paddan-aram, and camped before the city.

Jacob Moves to Bethel

35 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to ^(A)Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to ^(B)God, who appeared to you ^(C)when you fled ^[a]from your brother Esau.”

⁶ So Jacob came to ^(A)Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. ⁷ Then ^(B)he built an altar there, and called the place ^[a]El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled ^[b]from his brother. ⁸ Now ^(C)Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was named ^[c]Allon-bacuth.

Jacob Is Named Israel

⁹ Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He ^(A)blessed him. ^10 (B)God said to him,

So He called ^[b]him Israel. ¹¹ God also said to him,

¹³ Then ^(H)God went up from him at the place where He had spoken with him. ¹⁴ So Jacob set up ^(I)a memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him, a memorial of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. ¹⁵ And Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, ^[h](J)Bethel.

¹⁶ Then they journeyed on from Bethel; but when there was still some distance to go to ^(K)Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe difficulties in her labor.

²⁷ Jacob came to his father Isaac at ^(A)Mamre of ^(B)Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided.

²⁸ Now the days of Isaac were ^(C)180 years. ²⁹ Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was ^(D)gathered to his people, an ^(E)old man ^[a]of ripe age; and ^(F)his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Joseph’s Dreams

37 Now Jacob lived in ^(A)the land where his father had lived as a stranger, in the land of Canaan. ² These are the records of the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when he was ^(B)seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers, while he was still a youth, along with ^(C)the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back a ^(D)bad report about them to their father. ³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons, because he was ^(E)the son of his old age; and he made him a ^[a](F)multicolored tunic.

Jacob Moves to Egypt

46 So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to ^(A)Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the ^(B)God of his father Isaac. ² And ^(C)God spoke to Israel ^[a]in visions of the night and said, “^(D)Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” ³ Then He said, “^(E)I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will ^(F)make you into a great nation there.