17 And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

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19 He called the name of that place (A)Bethel,[a] but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

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Footnotes

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

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