Genesis 35:5-7

EasyEnglish Bible

⁵ Then they began their journey. All the towns near there were afraid of God's power. So no one attacked Jacob and his people.

⁶ Jacob and everyone with him arrived at Luz, now called Bethel. That is in the land of Canaan. ⁷ Jacob built an altar there. He called the place El Bethel, because that was where God appeared to him.^[a] God had appeared to him when he was running away from his brother Esau.