OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

Genesis 35:5

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They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

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Genesis 35:2–8

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Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

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Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

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They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

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They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

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So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

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He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

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Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

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