Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, (A)who answered me in the day of my distress (B)and has been with me in the way which I have gone.” So they gave Jacob all the foreign [a]gods which were in their hands, and the (C)earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under (D)the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.

And they journeyed, and (E)the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:4 idols

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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