Genesis 35:5

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Genesis 35:5

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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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KJV

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.

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WEB

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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ASV

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.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Genesis 35

³ Then 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.”

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

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

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

⁷ There 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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