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The Return to Bethel

35 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once[a] to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:1 tn Heb “arise, go up.” The first imperative gives the command a sense of urgency.
  2. Genesis 35:1 sn God is calling on Jacob to fulfill his vow he made when he fled from…Esau (see Gen 28:20-22).