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• LuzBible

  Luz was the earlier name of the city that Jacob renamed Bethel. It appears in Genesis, Joshua, and Judges; Judges also mentions a different city of the same name founded in the land of the Hittites.

• BethelBible

  Bethel is a place in the land of Canaan whose name means "house of God." Jacob encountered God there in a dream, and after the division of the kingdom it became the site of one of the golden calf altars of the northern kingdom of Israel.

• AngelBible

  In the Bible, an angel is a spiritual being who serves God and conveys His will. The Hebrew mal'akh and the Greek angelos both mean "one who is sent," that is, a messenger.

• Genesis 28Bible

  Genesis 28 recounts how Jacob, fleeing his brother Esau on his way to his uncle Laban, dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven and receives God's promise, then names the place Bethel and makes a vow.

• Genesis 28:20-22Bible Verses

  The vow Jacob made after his dream at Bethel, promising that if God would keep him, the LORD would be his God and he would give a tenth of all he received. The passage is often cited as an example of tithing before the Mosaic Law, and interpreters differ over the nature of a vow made with conditions attached.

• Jacob's WellBible

  Jacob's Well is the well near Sychar in Samaria where Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman in John 4. The Samaritans remembered it as the well given to them by their ancestor Jacob.

• Deborah, Rebekah's NursePeople

  Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, is a figure in the Book of Genesis who died while Jacob's household was staying at Bethel. She was buried beneath an oak below Bethel, and the tree was named Allon-bachuth.

• BenjaminPeople

  Benjamin was the second son of Jacob and Rachel and the youngest of Jacob's twelve sons. He was the ancestor of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• ZilpahPeople

  Zilpah was the maidservant whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah as her handmaid. Through Leah she became a wife of Jacob and bore Gad and Asher, making her the mother of two of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• PatriarchBible

  The patriarchs are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the founding ancestors of the people of Israel, together with Jacob's twelve sons. Their story is told in Genesis 12–50.

• Genesis 30Bible

  Genesis 30 recounts how Jacob's wives, Rachel and Leah, compete to bear sons, even giving their maidservants to Jacob, so that several children are born, including Joseph. It also tells how Jacob settles his wages with Laban and grows wealthy through his flocks.

• DinahPeople

  Dinah was the daughter of Jacob and Leah and the only daughter of Jacob named in the Bible. She is the central figure in the Shechem incident recorded in Genesis 34.

• GoshenBible

  Goshen was the land in Egypt where Jacob's family settled after going down there in the time of Joseph. In Exodus it appears as the land that God set apart as the dwelling place of the Israelites when He sent the plagues.

• Genesis 37Bible

  Genesis 37 tells how Joseph, Jacob's favored son, provokes his brothers' hatred by recounting his dreams and is then sold by them for twenty pieces of silver and carried off to Egypt.

• Genesis 34Bible

  Genesis 34 records how, after Shechem violated Jacob's daughter Dinah, Simeon and Levi used a deceitful demand for circumcision to kill the men of the city of Shechem, after which their brothers plundered the city.

• Genesis 35Bible

  In this chapter Jacob puts away the foreign idols in his household, goes up to Bethel, builds an altar, and is again given the name Israel. Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin, and the chapter continues with a list of Jacob's twelve sons and closes with the death of Isaac.

• Genesis 31Bible

  Genesis 31 is the chapter in which Jacob, at God's direction, secretly leaves Laban's household with his wives, children, and possessions. Laban pursues him, and after a dispute at Mount Gilead the two make a covenant, marked by a heap of stones as a witness, and then part ways.

• HaranBible

  Haran was a city in northern Mesopotamia where Abraham's family stayed after leaving Ur of the Chaldees, and where Jacob spent twenty years in the household of his uncle Laban.

• Genesis 35:1–7Bible Verses

  After the events at Shechem, God commands Jacob to go up to Bethel and build an altar there, and Jacob's household puts away its foreign gods before arriving at Bethel. The passage is often preached as an example of fulfilling a vow and of purification before worship.