⁷ 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.

³ Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God ^(A)who answers me in the day of my distress and ^(B)has been with me wherever I have gone.”

God Blesses and Renames Jacob

35 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to ^(A)Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you ^(B)when you fled from your brother Esau.”

¹³ And behold, ^(A)the Lord stood above it^[a] and said, ^(B)“I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. ^(C)The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.

³⁵ The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And ^(A)the name of the city from that time on shall be, ^(B)The Lord Is There.”

⁴ When ^(A)you vow a vow to God, ^(B)do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. ^(C)Pay what you vow. ^5 (D)It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

²⁴ Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, ^(A)The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at ^(B)Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.

¹⁵ And Moses ^(A)built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner,

²² and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, ^(A)shall be God's house. And ^(B)of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”

¹⁹ He called the name of that place ^(A)Bethel,^[a] but the name of the city was Luz at the first.