69 Jacob to Bethel, Isaac & Rebecca Die

The Lord God now appeared to Jacob for a fourth direct revelation. He told him to , Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there. He also told him to make there an altar unto God. It was there that he fled from Esau and where the Abrahamic Covenant was confirmed to him. Jacob had been in Shechem for ten years. This was not how he should have complied with the solemn vow he made to God (Genesis 28: 20-22) to return to Bethel his father’s home. The tragic incident with Dinah’s rape was probably the consequence of his failure to accommodate his debt to God.