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Genesis 35:1-5
Foreign Gods Put Away
Return to Bethel · Genesis 35
Story guide: God sends Jacob to Bethel, and his household gives up their foreign gods before setting out.
Open this scene in the reader →1Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there, and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from the presence of Esau your brother.”
2Then 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 clothes.”
3Let us rise and go up to Bethel, and there I will make an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me on the way that I went.
4So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that was near Shechem.
5Then they set out, and a terror from God fell on the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
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