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Jacob Returns to Bethel and Purifies His Household
Genesis 35:1-8
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And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
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Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments:
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and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
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And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
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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.
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So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him.
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And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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And Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.
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