“And he built there an altar, and called the place El–beth–el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.”
There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother. El Bethel means God of the house of God. The altar built and the name given are Jacob's covenant act of honoring the original encounter. The application: the act of building the altar at the place of original encounter is the act of acknowledging that what happened there was real and was from God.
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