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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. And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.[b]

God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.

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Footnotes

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

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