In Context

2 And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who are with him, 'Turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

3 and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'

4 And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that are in their hand, and the rings that are in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which is by Shechem;

5 and 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.

6 And Jacob cometh in to Luz which is in the land of Canaan (it is Bethel), he and all the people who are with him,

7 and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.

Genesis 35:5 in Other Translations