Genesis 35:6
And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Venit igitur Jacob Luzam, quæ est in terra Chanaan, cognomento Bethel : ipse et omnis populus cum eo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἦλθεν δὲ Ἰακὼβ εἰς Λοῦζα ἥ ἐστιν ἐν γῇ Χανάαν, ἥ ἐστιν Βαιθήλ, αὐτὸς καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ὃς ἦν μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֨א יַעֲקֹ֜ב ל֗וּזָה אֲשֶׁר֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן הִ֖וא בֵּֽית אֵ֑ל ה֖וּא וְכָל הָעָ֥ם אֲשֶׁר עִמּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Chanaan, to distinguish it from another. Judges i. 26, (Menochius) or because Moses wrote this in Arabia. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Justin Martyr Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter LVIII. The same is proved
And I continued: “It is again written by Moses, my brethren, that He who is called God and appeared to the patriarchs is called both Angel and Lord, in order that from this you may understand Him to be minister to the Father of all things, as you have already admitted, and may remain firm, persuaded by additional arguments. The word of God, therefore, [recorded] by Moses, when referring to Jacob the grandson of Abraham, speaks thus: ‘And it came to pass, when the sheep conceived, that I saw them with my eyes in the dream: And, behold, the he-goats and the rams which leaped upon the sheep and she-goats were spotted with white, and speckled and sprinkled with a dun colour. And the Angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob, Jacob. …