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There Jacob built an altar. He named the place Bethel, after God, because God had appeared to him there. That was when he was running from his brother.

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There he built an altar,(A) and he called the place El Bethel,[a](B) because it was there that God revealed himself to him(C) when he was fleeing from his brother.(D)

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Footnotes

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