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and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make (A)an altar there to God, (B)who answered me in the day of my distress and (C)has been with me [a]wherever I have gone.” So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which [b]they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the [c]oak which was near Shechem.

Then they journeyed on, and there was [d](D)a terror from God upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:3 Lit in the way which
  2. Genesis 35:4 Lit were in their hand
  3. Genesis 35:4 Or terebinth
  4. Genesis 35:5 Or a terror of God

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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