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 [a]earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under an oak, which was by Shechem.

Then they went on their journey, and the [b]fear of God was upon the cities that were round about them: so that they did not follow after the sons of Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:4 For therein was some sign of superstition, as in tablets and Agnus deis.
  2. Genesis 35:5 Thus, notwithstanding the inconvenience that came before, God delivered Jacob.

Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God,(A) who answered me in the day of my distress(B) and who has been with me wherever I have gone.(C) So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears,(D) and Jacob buried them under the oak(E) at Shechem.(F) Then they set out, and the terror of God(G) fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.(H)

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