¹⁹ He called that place Bethel,^[a](A) though the city used to be called Luz.^(B)

²² Now the tribes of Joseph^(A) attacked Bethel,^(B) and the Lord was with them. ²³ When they sent men to spy out Bethel (formerly called Luz),^{(C) 24} the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, “Show us how to get into the city and we will see that you are treated well.^(D)” ²⁵ So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared^(E) the man and his whole family. ²⁶ He then went to the land of the Hittites,^(F) where he built a city and called it Luz,^(G) which is its name to this day.

⁵ This was the territory of Ephraim, according to its clans:

¹¹ As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the Lord hurled large hailstones^(A) down on them,^(B) and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.