Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.)

He blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.

Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”

I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’

Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”