El-berith

See Baal-Berith, and cf. Moore, Judges, 242, 265; W. R. Smith, A9 93 n. ; Baudissin in PRE? iL p. 334. EL-BETHEL (pirn's ^k)-— The name which Jacob is said to have given to the scene of his ^asion on his way back from Paddan-aram, Gn 35' (P ?) The LXX (Bai9^X), Vulg. (Dormis Dei), Pesh. and Arab. VSS omit ' El,' which Ball (in Haupt's OT) suggests may have been corrupted from k^'^'^ ' that,' which would naturally be attached to D-p-ph (so in Pesh. and Vulg.)

Ball justly adds that God of Betliel li an extraordinary name for a place. See, however, the note (*) om p. 278' of the present volume. J. A. Selbie.