Bible verse
As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
Genesis 35:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 35.
1 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
3 Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
4 So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
5 As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
6 So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
7 There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.
9 After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
KJV
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.
ASV
And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
ERV
And they journeyed: and a great terror was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
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