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Jacob in Bethel

35 God said to Jacob, “Go to the town of Bethel.[a] That is where I appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau. Live there and make an altar to honor me as El,[b] the God who appeared to you.”

So Jacob told his family and all the other people with him, “Destroy all these foreign gods that you have. Make yourselves pure. Put on clean clothes.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:1 Bethel A town in Israel. This name means “God’s house.”
  2. Genesis 35:1 El A Hebrew name for God.

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