Study Desk

Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to ^(a)Bethel and ^[a]live there, and make an altar there to ^(b)God, who appeared to you ^(c)when you fled ^[b]from your brother Esau."

So Jacob said to his ^(d)household and to all who were with him, "Put away ^(e)the foreign gods which are among you, and ^(f)purify yourselves and change your garments;

and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make ^(g)an altar there to God, ^(h)who answered me in the day of my distress and ⁽ⁱ⁾has been with me ^[c]wherever I have gone."

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which ^[d]they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the ^[e]oak which was near Shechem.

As they journeyed, there was ^[f](j)a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

So Jacob came to ^(k)Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

^(l)He built an altar there, and called the place ^[g]El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled ^[h]from his brother.

Now ^(m)Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named ^[i]Allon-bacuth.