The Bible Study Podcast, episode 680.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of Genesis with chapter 35.

Welcome to the Bible study podcast from your host, Chris Christensen. We get today, Jacob returns to Bethel.

Then God said to Jacob, go up to Bethel and settle there and build an altar there to God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, get rid of the foreign gods you

have with you and purify yourselves and change your clothes. Then come, let us go up to Bethel,

where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who had been

with me wherever I have gone. So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had,

and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. Then they set out,

and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them, so that no one pursued them. Jacob and all

the people with him came to Luz, that is Bethel, in the land of Canaan.

There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God

revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother. Now Deborah, Rebecca's nurse,

died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Alan Bakuth. After Jacob

returned from Padam Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him. God said to him,

your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob. Your name will be Israel. So he named

him Israel. Then God said to him, I am God Almighty, be fruitful and increase in

number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your

descendants. The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I also give to you, and I will give this land to

your descendants after you. Then God went up from him

at the place where he had talked with him. Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had

talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it. He also poured oil on it. Jacob called the place

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