Genesis 35:14
Right there Jacob stood up a big stone, he stood it upright. He poured wine and oil on the stone to give them to God.
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In The King James Version
In Context
15That place where God came to him he named Bethel.
Cross References
Genesis 28:18At daybreak Jacob got up from sleep. Then he got that stone, the one his head had been lying on, he stood that up, he poured oil on that stone. He did that to remind him God talked to him there.
Genesis 35:20Jacob stood up a big stone, he stood it upright, on top of where they put Rachel in the ground. That stone is still there now.
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 →