And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to the Mighty God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.

Let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to the Mighty God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.

When you vow a vow to God, do not hesitate to pay it; for He has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you have vowed.

It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

And behold, Jehovah stood above it and said: I am Jehovah the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying I give to you and your seed.

And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of that city had formerly been Luz.

And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God's house, and of all that You give me I will tithe to give a tithe to You.

And Moses built an altar and called its name, Jehovah-My-Banner;

And Gideon built an altar there unto Jehovah, and called it Jehovah Shalom. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

All the way around shall be eighteen thousand cubits; and the name of the city from that day shall be, JEHOVAH IS THERE.