Beth-el, a known place, which afterwards was called Beth-el, but now Luz, Genesis 28:19; a usual prolepsis, or anticipation, as before, Genesis 12:6. On the west; or, on the sea; which is all one, because the sea was on the west part of the land: see Genesis 13:14, Genesis 28:14 Numbers 3:23 Deuteronomy 3:27. Hai, or Ai, as it is called, Joshua 7:2 Jeremiah 49:3 Isaiah 10:28.
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Genesis 12:8
8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.