Genesis 35:1-3

Expanded Bible

Jacob in Bethel

35 God said to Jacob, “·Go [^LRise up and go up] to the city of Bethel [12:8] and live there. Make an altar to the God who appeared to you there when you were ·running away [fleeing] from your brother Esau [28:1–22].”

² So Jacob said to his ·family [household] and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods you have, and ·make yourselves clean [purify yourselves], and change your clothes. ³ We will ·leave here and go [^Lrise up and go up] to Bethel. There I will build an altar to God, who ·has helped [^Lanswered] me ·during my time of trouble [^Lin the day of my distress]. He has been with me [^Can indication of a covenant relationship] everywhere I have gone.”