And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. And 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 there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,[a] because (B)there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:7 El-bethel means God of Bethel

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