Then said Jacob unto his household and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and [a]cleanse yourselves, and change your garments:

For we will rise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there unto God, which heard me in the day of my tribulation, and was with me in the way which I went.

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods, which were in their hands, and all their [b]earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under an oak, which was by Shechem.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:2 That by this outward act they should show their inward repentance.
  2. Genesis 35:4 For therein was some sign of superstition, as in tablets and Agnus deis.

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