Holy Scripture

Genesis 35:5

Source: Septuagint

Original

5So Israel departed from Shechem, and the fear of God was upon the cities round about them, and they did not pursue after the children of Israel.

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3And let us rise and go up to Bethel, and let us there make an altar to God who hearkened to me in the day of calamity, who was with me, and preserved me throughout in the journey, by which I went.

4And they gave to Jacob the strange gods, which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the turpentine tree which is in Shechem, and destroyed them to this day.

— Genesis 35:5 —

6And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, which is Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.

7And he built there an altar, and called the name of the place Bethel; for there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother Esau.

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