Genesis 35:1

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Genesis 35:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 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.”

2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

3 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.”

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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.

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Genesis 13:4

to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 28:10

Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

Genesis 28:11

On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

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Genesis 28:15

Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

Genesis 28:16

When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

Genesis 28:17

And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”

Genesis 28:18

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Genesis 28:19

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

Genesis 28:20

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

Genesis 28:21

so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.

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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.”

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