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and there he built an altar, and called the place El-bethel,[a] because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother. And Deb′orah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel; so the name of it was called Al′lon-bacuth.[b]

God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:7 That is God of Bethel
  2. Genesis 35:8 That is Oak of weeping

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