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Original Canaanite name of Bethel — and the name of a later Hittite-territory town its refugee founder named after his hometown
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Original Luz is the same site as Bethel — modern Beitin north of Jerusalem. The secondary Luz that the refugee founder built in Hittite territory has never been located.
The original Canaanite name of the city later called Bethel. Jacob slept there on his flight to Haran and saw the famous ladder reaching to heaven, naming the place Bethel — "house of God" — while noting "though the name of the city was Luz at the first" (Genesis 28:19; 35:6; 48:3; Joshua 18:13). After Joshua's conquest, the original Luz fell to Israel through a man who showed Joseph's tribe the way in; that man later went to the land of the Hittites and built a new town called Luz, which kept its old name (Judges 1:23-26).
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