And God said to Jacob, “Go up now to Beth-El, and stay there and build an altar to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
Then Jacob said to his household and to all the people who were with him, “Get rid of all your idols, purify yourselves, and put on fresh clothing. Then we will go up to Beth-El, and I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my distress and who has been with me everywhere I have gone.”
So they gave Jacob all their idols and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the terebinth tree near Shechem.
And Jacob and all the people who were with him came to Luz, in Canaan. And he built an altar there and named the place Beth-El, The House of God, because that was where God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
And Deborah, Rebecca’s old nurse, died and was buried under the oak tree below Beth-El, and Jacob called it Allon-bachuth, The Oak of Tears.