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Verse

RBT Translation:
and he is calling-out אֶת-the name of the Standing-place of Himself941 House of El, and yet, Almond-tree is a name of the City to the First one.942
LITV Translation:
And he called the name of that place, The House of God. And yet the name of the city was at first Luz.
ESV Translation:
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And he called the name of that place, the House of God; and the name of the city before was Ulam-luz.

Footnotes

941

Hebrew הַמָּק֥וֹם הַה֖וּא

942

Hebrew לָרִאשֹׁנָֽה. Luz (Almond tree) is a Hittite city.