He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

The Lord went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.

Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.

We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, “and room for you to spend the night.”

Laban said to him, “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?”

Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”

He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.

“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied, “to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”

God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

So the Lord replied, “If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”