Bible verse
There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
Genesis 35:7 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 35.
3 Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
4 So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
5 As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
6 So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
7 There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.
9 After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
10 And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
11 And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
KJV
And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
ASV
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
ERV
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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