5
And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round about them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6
And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
7
and there he built an altar, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
8
And Deb'orah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel; so the name of it was called Al'lon-bacuth.
9
God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
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