Genesis 35:7 There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

◄ Genesis 35:7 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

English Standard Version
and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

New American Standard Bible
He built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.

King James Bible
And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jacob built an altar there and called the place God of Bethel because it was there that God had revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

International Standard Version
He built an altar there to God and named the place El Beth-el, because God had revealed himself there when he was fleeing from his brother.

American Standard Version
And 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.

Darby Bible Translation
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

35:6-15 The comfort the saints have in holy ordinances, is not so much from Beth-el, the house of God, as from El-beth-el, the God of the house. The ordinances are empty things, if we do not meet with God in them. There Jacob buried Deborah, Rebekah's nurse. She died much lamented. Old servants in a family, that have in their time been faithful and useful, ought to be respected. God appeared to Jacob. He renewed the covenant with him. I am God Almighty, God all-sufficient, able to make good the promise in due time, and to support thee and provide for thee in the mean time. Two things are promised; that he should be the father of a great nation, and that he should be the master of a good land. These two promises had a spiritual signification, which Jacob had some notion of, though not so clear and distinct as we now have. Christ is the promised Seed, and heaven is the promised land; the former is the foundation, and the latter the top-stone, of all God's favours.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. El-Beth-el—that is, "the God of Beth-el."