16 When Jacob awoke from his sleep,(A) he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”

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19 He called that place Bethel,[a](A) though the city used to be called Luz.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:19 Bethel means house of God.

Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz(A) (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.(B)

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There he built an altar,(A) and he called the place El Bethel,[a](B) because it was there that God revealed himself to him(C) when he was fleeing from his brother.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:7 El Bethel means God of Bethel.

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