Genesis 35:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 Let us now go up to Bethel so that I might build an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” 4 They gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their possession and also the rings they had in their ears[a] and Jacob buried them under the oak that is near Shechem. 5 Then, as they set out, a great terror fell upon the surrounding towns, so that no one pursued the sons of Jacob.
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- 35:4 Rings…their ears: the earrings may have belonged to the gods because earrings were often placed on statues.
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