4
So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem.
5
As they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities all around them, so that no one pursued them.
6
Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
7
and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
8
And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.
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