Places
God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to this place and dwell there.”
What is: Bethel?
The sons of Jacob were this many.
What is: twelve?
The days of Isaac were this many years. And Isaac breathed his last and died, old and full of days.
What is: 180 years?
Jacob set up this in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone.
What is: a pillar?
God said to Jacob, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but this shall be your name.”
What is: Israel?
Jacob came to this place (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan.
What is: Luz?
These are the sons of Rachel.
Who are: Joseph and Benjamin?
Isaac’s sons named this buried him.
Who are: Jacob and Esau?
Jacob came to Luz and built this, calling the place El‑bethel.
What is: an altar?
God went this direction from him in the place where he had spoken with him.
What is: “went up”?
Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him this.
What is: Bethel?
These are the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant.
Who are: Gad and Asher?
As they journeyed, this fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
What is: “a terror from God”?
Jacob poured out this on the pillar and poured oil on it.
What is: a drink offering?
Rachel died during hard labor and was buried on the way to this (that is, Bethlehem).
What is: Ephrath?
These are the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant.
Who are: Dan and Naphtali?
Jacob’s household gave to him all this, and he hid them under the terebinth tree near Shechem.
What are:
“the foreign gods that they had and the rings (earrings) that were in their ears”?
Jacob came to his father Isaac at this place, or Kiriath‑arba (that is, Hebron).
What is: Mamre?
These are the sons of Leah.
Who are: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun?
Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him this.
What is:
“Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments”?
Jacob said, “Let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who did this.”
What is “answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone”?
God said to Jacob, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. This shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.”
What is: “a nation and a company of nations”?