18. After Jacob got up early in the morning, he took the stone that he had put near his head, set it up as a sacred pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
19. He named that sacred place Bethel, though Luz was the city’s original name.
20. Jacob made a solemn promise: "If God is with me and protects me on this trip I’m taking, and gives me bread to eat and clothes to wear,
21. and I return safely to my father’s household, then the Lord will be my God.