Genesis 35:13

When God finished talking there with Jacob, he left him.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12The land that I promised to give to your grandfather Abraham and your father Isaac, I will give to you. I will also give it to your descendants.”

14Jacob set up a large stone at the place where God had talked with him. He poured some wine and some olive oil on it to dedicate it to God.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:5So they began to build the city and the tower. Then Yahweh looked down and saw the city and the tower that those puny men were building.

Genesis 18:33Abraham said no more, and as soon as Yahweh finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.

Judges 13:20Flames from the altar blazed up toward the sky, and Yahweh ascended in the flames. When Manoah and his wife saw that, they prostrated themselves on the ground.

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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