Genesis 28:17
17And 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.”Genesis 28:19
19He called the name of that place aBethel, ▼▼ Bethel means the house of God
but the name of the city was Luz at the first. Genesis 35:7
7and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, ▼▼ El-bethel means God of Bethel
because dthere God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
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