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Then Godsaid to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and livethere, and make an altarthere to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brotherEsau."
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So Jacobsaid to his household and to allwho were with him, "Putaway the foreigngodswhich are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments;
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and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altarthere to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever* I have gone."