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Genesis 35:3

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35:3Let us go up at once6 to Bethel. Then I will make7 an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress8 and has been with me wherever I went.”9

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Genesis 35:3: Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone…

Footnotes

  1. 6 Heb “let us arise and let us go up.” The first cohortative gives the statement a sense of urgency.
  2. 7 The cohortative with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or consequence.
  3. 8 Heb “day of distress.” See Ps 20:1 which utilizes similar language.
  4. 9 Heb “in the way in which I went.” Jacob alludes here to God’s promise to be with him (see Gen 28:20).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

NLTNew Living Translation

We are now going to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who answered my prayers when I was in distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then let us make ready and let us go up to Bethel, so that I can make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble, and who has been with me on the way that I have gone.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.