So Jacob came to (A)Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. And he (B)built an altar there and called the place [a]El Bethel, because (C)there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

Now (D)Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called [b]Allon Bachuth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:7 Lit. God of the House of God
  2. Genesis 35:8 Lit. Terebinth of Weeping

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