Read Genesis 35.1-15
Jacob returns to Bethel
After many years , Jacob returns to Bethel where God had first encountered and blessed Jacob when he was fleeing from his brother Esau (28.10-22).
In verse 2: The foreign gods that are among you probably included the household gods or idols that Rachel had stolen from her father Laban when they fled from him (31.19).
In verse 7: El-bethel means "God of Bethel" or "God of the house of God."
God had revealed himself to Jacob there at Bethel in 28.10-22.
In verse 14: As elsewhere in Genesis (28.18), setting up a pillar of stone and pouring oil on it marks the location as a holy site at which the deity was worshiped.
In verse 15: Bethel means "house of God."
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