Genesis 35:1-4

Jacob Returns to Bethel

1 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.
3 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.”
4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.

Cross References 14

  • 1. S Genesis 12:8; Genesis 28:19
  • 2. S Genesis 4:26; Genesis 8:20
  • 3. ver 3
  • 4. S Genesis 12:7
  • 5. ver 7; Genesis 27:43
  • 6. Genesis 18:19; Joshua 24:15
  • 7. S Genesis 31:19; S Joshua 24:14
  • 8. Exodus 19:10,14; Numbers 8:7,21; Numbers 19:19
  • 9. ver 1
  • 10. S Genesis 32:7; S Judges 2:15
  • 11. S Genesis 26:3; Ge 28:15,20-22; Genesis 31:3,42
  • 12. S Genesis 24:22; Exodus 32:3; Exodus 35:22; Judges 8:24; Proverbs 25:12
  • 13. ver 8
  • 14. S Genesis 12:6; Joshua 24:25-26
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