1. And God said unto Jacob. Moses relates that when Jacob had been reduced to the last extremity, God came to his help in the right time, and as at the critical juncture. And thus he shows, in the person of one man, that God never deserts his Church which…
KJVAnd he built there an altar, and called the place El–beth–el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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4 additional translationsAnd he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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.
and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because thereGod had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.
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About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).