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Genesis 35:7
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Genesis 35:7
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and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
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As they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities all around them, so that no one pursued them.
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Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
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and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
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And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.
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God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.
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[a].
That is [God of Bethel]
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.