merciful, and take this blessing of me.  Unnethe [hardly] by compelling he taking it, said:  Let us go together, I shall accompany thee and be fellow of thy journey.  Then said Jacob:  Thou knowest well, my lord, that I have young children and tender, and sheep and oxen, which, if I over-labored, should die all in a day, wherefore please it you, my lord, to go tofore, and I shall follow as I may with my children and beasts.  Esau answered:  I pray thee then let my fellows abide and accompany thee, whatsoever need thou have.  Jacob said:  It is no need, I need no more but one, that I may stand in thy favor, my lord.  And Esau returned then the same way and journey that he came into Seir.  And Jacob came to Succoth and builded there an house, and from thence he went in to Shalem, the town of Shechem which is in the land of Canaan, and bought there a part of a field, in which he fixed his tabernacles, of the sons of Hamor father of Shechem for an hundred lambs.  And there he raised an altar, and worshipped upon it the strongest God of Israel.

After this our Lord appeared to Jacob and said:  Arise and go up to Bethel and dwell there, and make there an altar to the Lord that appeared to thee in the way when thou fleddest from thy brother Esau.  Jacob then called all them of his house and said:  Cast away from you all your strange gods that be among you, and make you clean and change your clothes; arise and let us go into Bethel, and make we there an altar to our Lord that heard me in the day of my tribulation, and was fellow of my journey.  Then they gave to him all their strange gods, and the gold that hung on their ears, and he dalf a pit behind the city of Shechem and threw them therein.  And when they departed, all the countries thereabout were afraid and durst not pursue them.  Then Jacob came to a place called Luz which is in the land of Canaan, and all the people with him, which otherwise is called Bethel.  He edified there an altar to our Lord, and named that place the House of God.  Our Lord appeared to him in that place when he fled from his brother Esau.  That same time died Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, and was buried at the root of Bethel under an oak.  Our Lord appeared again to Jacob after that he was returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and was come into Bethel, and blessed him saying:  Thou shalt no more be called Jacob but Israel shall be thy name, and called him Israel, and said to him:  I am God Almighty, grow and multiply, folks and peoples of nations shall come of thee, kings shall come of thy loins.  The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I shall give to thee and thy seed; and vanished from him.