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

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  1. Genesis 35:7 That is God of Bethel
  2. Genesis 35:8 That is Oak of weeping

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