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Genesis 28:17-19
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17 Jacob was afraid. He said, ‘How great this place is! This must be the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.’

18 Early in the morning Jacob got up. He took the stone that he had put under his head. He made it stand up straight in the ground. He poured oil on top of it.[a]

19 Jacob called that place Bethel.[b] Before that, the name of the place had been Luz.

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Footnotes

  1. 28:18 The oil poured onto the stone was olive oil. This practice was to show that it belonged to God.
  2. 28:19 Bethel means ‘house of God’.
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