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Genesis 35:3-5
Contemporary English Version
Genesis 35:3-5
Contemporary English Version
3 Afterwards, we'll go to Bethel. I will build an altar there for God, who answered my prayers when I was in trouble and who has always been at my side.
4 So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings,[a] and he buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.
5 While Jacob and his family were traveling through Canaan, God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them.
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- 35.4 earrings: These would have had symbols of foreign gods on them.
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