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They set out, and terror from God fell on the cities that were around them, so they did not pursue Jacob’s sons. So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. He built an altar there and named the place El Beth El,[a] because God had been revealed to him there, when he fled from the presence of his brother.

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  1. Genesis 35:7 El Beth El means God of the House of God.