Genesis 35:1–7

Jacob Moves to Bethel

1 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to aBethel and 1live there, and make an altar there to bGod, who appeared to you cwhen you fled 2from your brother Esau.”

2 So Jacob said to his ahousehold and to all who were with him, “Put away bthe foreign gods which are among you, and cpurify yourselves and change your garments;

3 and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make aan altar there to God, bwho answered me in the day of my distress and chas been with me 1wherever I have gone.”

4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which 1they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the 2oak which was near Shechem.

5 As they journeyed, there was 1 aa great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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

7 aHe built an altar there, and called the place 1El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled 2from his brother.

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a	Ge 28:19
1	Lit dwell
b	Ge 28:13
c	Ge 27:43
2	Lit from the face of
a	Ge 18:19 Jos 24:15
b	Ge 31:19 Ge 31:30 Ge 31:34
c	Ex 19:10 Ex 19:14
a	Ge 28:20–22
b	Ps 107:6
c	Ge 28:15 Ge 31:3 Ge 31:42
1	Lit in the way which
1	Lit were in their hand
2	Or terebinth
1	Or a terror of God
a	Ex 15:16 Ex 23:27 Dt 2:25
a	Ge 28:19 Ge 48:3
a	Ge 35:3
1	I.e. the God of Bethel
2	Lit from the face of