and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,[a] because (A)there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:7 El-bethel means God of Bethel

23 And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. ((A)Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)

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26 And the man went to (A)the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.

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