Genesis 35:7

New American Bible - revised edition

There he built an altar and called the place El-Bethel, for it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said: To your descendants I will give this land. So Abram built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

Genesis 12:8

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel, pitching his tent with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there to the Lord and invoked the Lord by name.

Genesis 28:10

Jacob departed from Beer-sheba and proceeded toward Haran.

Genesis 28:13

And there was the Lord standing beside him and saying: I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying I will give to you and your descendants.

Genesis 28:17

He was afraid and said: “How awesome this place is! This is nothing else but the house of God, the gateway to heaven!”

Genesis 28:19

He named that place Bethel, whereas the former name of the town had been Luz.

Genesis 28:22

This stone that I have set up as a sacred pillar will be the house of God. Of everything you give me, I will return a tenth part to you without fail.”

Genesis 29:1

After Jacob resumed his journey, he came to the land of the Kedemites.

Genesis 31:13

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a sacred pillar and made a vow to me. Get up now! Leave this land and return to the land of your birth.’”

Genesis 35:1

God said to Jacob: Go up now to Bethel. Settle there and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.

Genesis 35:15

Jacob named the place where God spoke to him Bethel. Jacob’s Family.

Genesis 35:3

Let us now go up to Bethel so that I might build an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Exodus 17:15

Moses built an altar there, which he named Yahweh-nissi;

Ezekiel 48:35

The circuit of the city shall be eighteen thousand cubits. From now on the name of the city is “The Lord is there.”

Judges 6:24

So Gideon built there an altar to the Lord and called it Yahweh-shalom. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.