Bible Verses About Social and Family Prayer: Jacob

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.