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Genesis 35:5

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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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Genesis 35:5 in other translations

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.

Genesis 35:5 · American Standard Version

Genesis 35:5 in context

  1. 3Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
  2. 4They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
  3. 5They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.
  4. 6So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
  5. 7He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.