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While they were traveling, a terror from God fell upon the cities around them, so that none of them pursued the sons of Ya‘akov.

Ya‘akov and all the people with him arrived at Luz (that is, Beit-El) in the land of Kena‘an. He built there an altar and called the place El-Beit-El [God of Beit-El], because it was there that God was revealed to him, at the time when he was fleeing from his brother.

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