And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,
And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go and explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.
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