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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 35, Verse 5

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And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their hand, and [all their] earrings which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem.
King James Version
And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that [were] round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
American Standard Version
And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
New English Translation
and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
World English Bible
They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
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So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of Canaan, that [is], Bethel, he and all the people that [were] with him.
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And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
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And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
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And God said unto him, Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
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And God said unto him, I [am] God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
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And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
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And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, [even] a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
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And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.