5Then they set out, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.


In Context

2 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.

3 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 has been with me wherever I have gone."

4 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.

5 Then they set out, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

6 Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

7 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.

Genesis 35:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:5And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

35:5And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

35:5And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:5And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

35:5And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that were round them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:5They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

35:5and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which are round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.