³ We will ·leave here and go [^Lrise up and go up] to Bethel. There I will build an altar to God, who ·has helped [^Lanswered] me ·during my time of trouble [^Lin the day of my distress]. He has been with me [^Can indication of a covenant relationship] everywhere I have gone.” ⁴ So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods ·they had [in their possession; ^Lin their hands], and the earrings ·they were wearing [^Lon their ears], and he hid them under the ·great tree [^Loak; or terebinth; 12:6] near the town of Shechem. ⁵ Then Jacob and his sons left there. But ·God caused the people in the nearby cities to be afraid [^Lthe terror of God was on the surrounding cities], so they did not ·follow [pursue] them.