“He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 35 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.