God said to Jacob, "Go to Bethel at once, and live there. Build an altar there to me, the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau."

We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone."

So when you make a promise to God, keep it as quickly as possible. He has no use for a fool. Do what you promise to do.

Better not to promise at all than to make a promise and not keep it.

And there was the LORD standing beside him. "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham and Isaac," he said. "I will give to you and to your descendants this land on which you are lying.

He named the place Bethel. (The town there was once known as Luz.)

This memorial stone which I have set up will be the place where you are worshiped, and I will give you a tenth of everything you give me."

Moses built an altar and named it "The LORD is my Banner."

Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and named it "The LORD is Peace." (It is still standing at Ophrah, which belongs to the clan of Abiezer.)

The total length of the wall on all four sides of the city is 10,080 yards. The name of the city from now on will be "The- LORD -Is-Here!"