Jacob Returns to Bethel

35 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel^(A) and settle there, and build an altar^(B) there to God,^(C) who appeared to you^(D) when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”^(E)

⁶ Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz^(A) (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.^(B)

⁷ 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)