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Here he built an altar and called the place El-Bethel, because God had revealed himself there, when he had fled from his brother.

Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died there, and she was buried below Bethel, beneath an oak. This is why that place is called the Weeping Oak.

God appeared another time to Jacob, when he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.

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