Genesis 35:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

and he named the place Bethel.

Cross References

Genesis 28:19

and he named the place Bethel. Before that it had been named Luz.

Genesis 35:1

God told Jacob, “Return to Bethel, where I appeared to you when you were running from your brother Esau. Make your home there and build an altar for me.”

Genesis 35:16

Jacob and his family had left Bethel and were still a long way from Ephrath, when the time came for Rachel's baby to be born.

Genesis 35:7

Jacob built an altar there and called it “God of Bethel”, because that was the place where God had appeared to him when he was running from Esau.