📖 January 17 The One Year Bible Genesis 32:13 - 34:31 Jacob goes to Bethel to set up an altar and buries all the foreign gods to purify themselves in the place where God revealed himself when Jacob was fleeing from Esau. Rebekah's nurse dies and is also buried here. God blesses Jacob and renamed him Israel. He then marks the location with a stone pillar and poured a drink and oil on it as an offering. They continue toward Ephrath but Rachel goes into labor and dies. Jacob/Israel buries her and