5. When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.
6. Jacob came with all his people to Luz, which is now known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan.
7. He built an altar there and named the place after the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother.
8. Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was named “Oak of Weeping”.