Genesis 35:13

Then God left him.

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In The King James Version

And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

In Context

12I will give you the land I first gave to Abraham and then to Isaac. Now I will give it to you and to your descendants after you.”

14Then Jacob set up a stone so that he would remember what God had said. He set it up there where God had spoken to him, and he poured wine and olive oil on it so that it would be holy.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:5Then the people made many small houses and one very high tower. And Yahweh came down to see them.

Genesis 18:33Then Yahweh finished speaking and left Abraham, and Abraham went home.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:7-16

Jacob's Arrival at Bethel. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 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. 7 And 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. 8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. 9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.… Read the whole commentary →

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