Genesis 35:7 “There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, becaus…”

Genesis 35:7

There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

World English Bible

He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

American Standard Version

And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

Geneva Bible 1599

And he built there an altar, and had called the place, The God of Beth-el, because that God appeared vnto him there, when he fled from his brother.

Darby Translation

And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

Young's Literal Translation

and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.

Bible in Basic English

And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.

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Cross references

“built”

Genesis 35:1 Genesis 35:3 Ecclesiastes 5:4 Ecclesiastes 5:5

Genesis 35:1 · BSB

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:3 · BSB

Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Ecclesiastes 5:4 · BSB

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

Ecclesiastes 5:5 · BSB

It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.

“Elbethel”

Genesis 28:13 Genesis 28:19 Genesis 28:22 Exodus 17:15 Judges 6:24 Ezekiel 48:35

Genesis 28:13 · BSB

And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

Genesis 28:19 · BSB

and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

Genesis 28:22 · BSB

And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”

Exodus 17:15 · BSB

And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.

Judges 6:24 · BSB

So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Ezekiel 48:35 · BSB

The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE LORD IS THERE. ”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

8Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.

Read Genesis 35