From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.

He journeyed on by stages from the Negeb as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, coming out with her water jar on her shoulder.

She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”

Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing comes from the Lord; we cannot speak to you anything bad or good.

and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean.

Go at once to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and take as wife from there one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Thus Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

Jacob’s Dream at Bethel

Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.

He called that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and return to the land of your birth.’ ”

Jacob Returns to Bethel

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

then come, let us go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Jacob came to Luz, that is, Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,

and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.

So Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

The Birth of Benjamin and the Death of Rachel

Then they journeyed from Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor.

And Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem,

For when I came from Paddan, Rachel, alas, died in the land of Canaan on the way, while there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.”

Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.