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Jacob came to Luz, that is, Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,(A) and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,[a] because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.(B) And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.[b](C)

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  1. 35.7 That is, God of Bethel
  2. 35.8 That is, oak of weeping