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


In Context

2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, |Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

3 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.|

4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

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

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

7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

35:5Then they set out, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

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 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.