A moment in scripture
Genesis 35:5
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.
The surrounding passage
- Genesis 35:3
And let us arise, and go up to Beth–el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
- Genesis 35:4
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.
- Genesis 35:6
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth–el, he and all the people that were with him.
- Genesis 35:7
And he built there an altar, and called the place El–beth–el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.