Genesis 28:18
16 Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!” 17 He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!” 18 Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it. 19 He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.
Leviticus 26:1
1 “‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God. 2 You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord. 3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,
Notes and References
"... Although the rest of the Torah would not be intelligible without the background provided in the Book of Genesis, this work nevertheless constitutes a distinct and discrete unit within that literary corpus. Its individuality and antiquity are asserted in numerous ways: The Stone Pillar (matsevah) ... this cultic object is sternly forbidden in Leviticus 26:1 and Deuteronomy 16:21-22 as being abhorrent to God; yet the Genesis narratives do not hesitate to ascribe its use to the patriarch Jacob. It is clear that the texts were not altered to conform to the standards of a later age. The same conclusion may be drawn from the report about Abraham planting a tamarisk and engaging in worship at the site, an act prohibited in the legislation of Deuteronomy 16:21 ..."
Sarna, Nahum M Genesis: The Traditional Hebrew Text with New JPS Translation (p. xv) Jewish Publication Society, 1989