Genesis 35:2-7
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Chapter 35
2So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments. 3Then 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." 4So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.
5And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
7and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
