Genesis Chapter 35 verse 7 Holy Bible
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.
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And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.
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And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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And he erected there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - And he built there an altar, - thus redeeming his vow (cf. Ecclesiastes 5:4) - and called the place El-beth-el: - i.e. God of Bethel. Not he called the place of God, or the place sacred to God, Bethel (Michaelis, 'Suppl.,' p. 2174), nor he called the altar (Keil, Kalisch, Gerlach, etc.), but he called the place where the altar was El-beth-el; i.e. either he devoted the place as sacred to the El of Bethel (Rosenmüller), or he gave to the place the name of (so. the place of) the El of Bethel, reading the first El as a genitive (Lange); or he called it El-Beth-el metaphorically, as Jerusalem afterwards was styled Jehovah Tsidkenu (Jeremiah 33:16) and Jehovah Shammah (Ezekiel 48:35; Inglis). It has been proposed, after the LXX., to avoid the seeming incongruity of assigning such a name to a place, to read, he invoked upon the place the El of Bethel (Quarry, p. 513) - because there God appeared unto him, - the El of Bethel was Jehovah (vide Genesis 28:13; Genesis 31:13) - when he fled from the face of his brother.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) El-beth-el.--That is, the God of the house of God: the God into whose house he had been admitted, and seen there the wonders of His providence.God appeared.--The verb here, contrary to rule, is plural (see Note on Genesis 20:13), but the Samaritan Pentateuch has the singular. No argument can be drawn either way from the versions, as the word for God is singular in them all, and the verb necessarily singular also. In no other language but Hebrew is the name of God plural, but joined with verbs and adjectives in the singular.
