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Elbethel

Altar · today Beitin

Location likely About 16 km (10 miles, 90 furlongs) north of Jerusalem

El-Bethel in the Bible Dictionary

Named in 1 Verse

Genesis 35:7 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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