3 Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, awho answered me in the day of my distress band has been with me in the way which I have gone.”
4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign1 gods which were in their hands, and the aearrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under bthe terebinth tree which was by Shechem.
5 And they journeyed, and athe terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6 So Jacob came to aLuz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
7 And he abuilt an altar there and called the place1 El Bethel, because bthere God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Definitions of words in Genesis 35:5:
All {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
God {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Jacob {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Jacob {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Other definition entries containing Genesis 35:5:
Bethel {Easton's}
Hornet {Easton's}
Genesis, 1-2 {I.S.B.E.}
Genesis, 3 {I.S.B.E.}
Jacob (1) {I.S.B.E.}
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