Genesis 35:1-3

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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.”

² 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. ³ We will leave here and go to Bethel. There I will build an altar to the God who has always helped me during times of trouble. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”