Genesis 35:5 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 35:5

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.

8 Now ^aDeborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called¹ Allon Bachuth.

9 Then ^aGod appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan Aram, and ^bblessed him.

Verse Comparison: Genesis 35:5

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American Standard Version
And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

Amplified® Bible
And they journeyed and a terror from God fell on the towns round about them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Contemporary English Version
While Jacob and his family were traveling through Canaan, God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them.

Darby English Version
And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

Good News Bible
When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.

King James Version
And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

New American Standard Bible
As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

New International Version
Then they set out, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

New King James Version
And they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
As they journeyed, a great terror fell upon the cities which surrounded them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Revised Standard Version
And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round about them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Young's Literal Translation
and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which `are' round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.

New English Translation
and they started on their journey.¹ The surrounding cities were afraid of God,² and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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