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Genesis 35:7

“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.”

Verse in context — Genesis 35

5

And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that [were] round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

6

So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of Canaan, that [is], Bethel, he and all the people that [were] with him.

7

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.

8

But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

9

And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.

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