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1 And God said to Jacob, |Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.| 2 Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, |Get rid of the foreign gods that you have among you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3 Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me wherever I went.| 4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their possession, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak that was near Shechem. 5 Then they set out, and a terror of God was upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother. Genesis 35:1-7, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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