Genesis 35:6

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Genesis 35:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

5 As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

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

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.

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

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Genesis 12:8

From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 28:19

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

Genesis 28:22

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.”

Judges 1:22

The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

Judges 1:23

They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),

Judges 1:24

and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”

Judges 1:25

So the man showed them the entrance to the city, and they put the city to the sword but released that man and all his family.

Judges 1:26

And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.