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Genesis 35:5

“As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.”
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3Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

4So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

5As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

6So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

7There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

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