Today is the 17th day of January. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian. It's great to be here with you do

gather around the global campfire and take the next step forward on the journey.

We are on the journey with Jacob who has been named Israel.

And so we will pick up the story today,

Genesis chapter 35 and 36.

God said to Jacob, get up, go to Bethel and settle there, build an altar there to the god who appeared to you when

you fled from your brother, Esau.

Sir Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change

your clothes. We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who

answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere

I have gone. Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them

under the oak near Shekham.

When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them,

and they did not pursue Jacob's sons.

So Jacob and all who are with him came to Luzz, that is Bethel, in the land of Canaan.

Jacob built an altar there and called the place Elle, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing

from his brother.

Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebecca, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it

Elon Bakut. God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Padden Arram and he blessed him.

God said to him,

Your name is Jacob.

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