¹⁷ In mounting terror, he cried out, “How scary this place is! This is nothing less than God’s house and the gateway to heaven!” ¹⁸ When Jacob got up early the next morning, he took the stone that he had used for his pillow,^[a] set it up as a pillar, drenched it with oil, ¹⁹ and named^[b] the place Beth-el, although previously^[c] the city had been named Luz.