Genesis 28:17-19

Expanded Bible

¹⁷ He was afraid and said, “This place frightens me! It is surely the house of God and the gate of heaven.”

¹⁸ Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone ·he had slept on [^Lwhich was under his head] and set it up ·on its end [^Las a pillar; 31:13, 45; 35:14, 20; Ex. 24:4; ^Ca practice later prohibited because similar to Canaanite religion (Ex. 23:24; 34:13; Deut. 12:3)]. Then he poured olive oil on the top of it. ¹⁹ ·At first [Formerly], the name of that city was Luz, but Jacob named it Bethel [^C“house of God”].