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Genesis 35:15
Genesis 35:15 is verse 15 of Genesis chapter 35, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
Bethel means house of God.
King James Version
And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
World English Bible
Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.
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Genesis 35:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.
14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
15 Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
16 Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
17 During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 28:19and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.