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He built an altar there and named the place El-bethel,[a] because God had revealed himself to him there when he ran away from his brother. Rebekah’s nurse Deborah died and was buried at Bethel under the oak, and Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.[b]

God appeared to Jacob again, while he was on his way back from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:7 Or God of Bethel
  2. Genesis 35:8 Or oak of weeping

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