6
So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 35:6 In-Context
4
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.
5
Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.
6
Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
7
There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8
Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.