When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.(A) So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel(B)) in the land of Canaan. Jacob built an altar there and called the place God of Bethel[a] because it was there that God had revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:7 Or El-bethel

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