Genesis 35:3

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Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

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The Journeys of Abraham and the PatriarchsThe journeys of Abraham and the patriarchs from Ur through Canaan and into Egypt.

Canaan in the Patriarchal AgeCanaan during the patriarchal period, before the Israelite conquest.

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Bethel (formerly Luz) in Canaan is where Jacob returns to worship God, who had appeared to him in his distress; El-bethel names the altar there. The chapter’s surrounding journey links Shechem, Allon-bacuth, Ephrath/Bethlehem, Eder, Hebron/Mamre,

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Genesis 35:3 mentions Allon-bacuth, Bethel, Bethlehem, Canaan, Eder, El-bethel, Ephrath, Hebron, Luz, Mamre, Paddan-aram and Shechem.

Photo of Bethlehem — Bethlehem · Berthold Werner

Photo of Eder — Eder · Antoine Taveneaux