Then they went on their journey, and the [a]fear of God was upon the cities that were round about them: so that they did not follow after the sons of Jacob.

¶ So came Jacob to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan: (the same is Bethel) he and all the people that were with him.

And he built there an altar, and (A)had called the place, The God of Bethel, because that God appeared unto him there, when he fled from his brother.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:5 Thus, notwithstanding the inconvenience that came before, God delivered Jacob.

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