Genesis 35:6
in Genesis 35So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him.
KJV
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth–el, he and all the people that were with him.
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This verse in Genesis 35
Commentary
5 notes on this verse(Chapter 35, Verse 6.) And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan, which is Bethel. Here it is clearly confirmed that Bethel is not Ulammaus, as stated above, but Luz, that is, the almond tree mentioned before.
This site's exposition
a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities
on Genesis 35:5-7
Jacob had said at Genesis 34:30 that he and his household would be destroyed, and a terror from God answers that fear. The surrounding cities do not pursue. He builds the altar he was told to build and calls the place El-bethel, the God of the house of God. The name fastens to the One who met him there.
This site's exposition
everyone with him arrived in Luz
Luz was the Canaanite name of the city, and Genesis 28:19 records that Jacob called the place Bethel, house of God. Judges 1:23 to 26 tells how the house of Joseph took Luz, and a man from it built a second Luz among the Hittites. Luz is the almond of Genesis 30:37.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is Bethel,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
So Jacob came to Luz . . . that is, Beth-el--It is probable that this place was unoccupied ground when Jacob first went to it; and that after that period [CALVIN], the Canaanites built a town, to which they gave the name of Luz [Ge 28:19], from the profusion of almond trees that grew around.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּבֹ֨א | vaiyavo' | and he came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| יַעֲקֹ֜ב | yaako | Jacob | H3290 → | 350 times |
| ל֗וּזָה | luzah | Luz towards | H3870 → | 8 times |
| אֲשֶׁר֙ | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| בְּאֶ֣רֶץ | beeretz | [is] in [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| כְּנַ֔עַן | kenaan | Canaan | H3667 → | 94 times |
| הִ֖וא | hi' | that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| בֵּֽית־ | beit- | [is] Beth- | H1008 → | 142 times |
| אֵ֑ל | ʾel | -el | H1008 → | 142 times |
| ה֖וּא | hu' | he | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| וְכָל־ | vekhol | and all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הָעָ֥ם | haam | the people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| עִמּֽוֹ׃ | imo | [was] with him | H5973 → | 1050 times |
וַיָּבֹ֨אand he came
vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times
יַעֲקֹ֜בJacob
yaakoH3290 →350 times
ל֗וּזָהLuz towards
luzahH3870 →8 times
אֲשֶׁר֙which
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ[is] in [the] land of
beeretzH776 →2504 times
כְּנַ֔עַןCanaan
kenaanH3667 →94 times
הִ֖ואthat
hi'H1931 →1879 times
בֵּֽית־[is] Beth-
beit-H1008 →142 times
אֵ֑ל-el
ʾelH1008 →142 times
ה֖וּאhe
hu'H1931 →1879 times
וְכָל־and all
vekholH3605 →5413 times
הָעָ֥םthe people
haamH5971 →1873 times
אֲשֶׁר־which
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
עִמּֽוֹ׃[was] with him
imoH5973 →1050 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 28:19and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
it leads to
- Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Hosea 12:4–5
Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—
- Genesis 48:3
Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me
- 1 Kings 12:29
One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
- Genesis 35:1
Through
Genesis 28:22And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
it leads to
- Genesis 35:7
There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
- Genesis 14:20
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
- Deuteronomy 14:22–23
You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
- Leviticus 27:30–33
Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
- Genesis 35:7
Where this verse is studied
On this page
About Genesis

Who and where
3 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonPatriarchsJacobThe heel-grasping supplanter reshaped at Peniel into 'Israel, he who strives with God' — father of the twelve tribes.
- PlaceThe LevantCanaanThe land God promised to Abraham's seed, walked and marked with altars by the patriarchs and possessed under Joshua four centuries…
- PlaceCentral hill countryBethelThe house of God, where Jacob saw the ladder and heard the promise, where he returned to raise an altar, and where Jeroboam’s gold…
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
