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and wouldn’t think of praying to
the Lord.
Terror will grip them,
for God is with those who obey
him.
The wicked frustrate the plans of
the oppressed,
but the Lord will protect his
people.
Who will come from Mount Zion to
rescue Israel?
When the Lord restores his
people,
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Jacob will shout with joy, and
Israel will rejoice.
14:3 Greek version reads have become useless.
Compare Rom 3:12.
PROVERBS 3:1920
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By wisdom the Lord founded the
earth;
by understanding he created the
heavens.
By his knowledge the deep
fountains of the earth burst
forth,
and the dew settles beneath the
night sky.
Lord, like those Pharisees we seem so easily offended
these days, so fast to find fault. Help our leaders—help
all of us—to be quick to listen, slow to speak, and to taste
our words before spitting them out. Amen.
GENESIS 35:1–36:43
Then God said to Jacob, “Get ready
and move 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 every
one in his
household, “Get rid of all your pagan
idols, purify yourselves, and put on
clean clothing. 3 We are now going to
Bethel, where I will build an altar to
the God who answered my prayers
when I was in distress. He has been
with me wherever I have gone.”
4 So they gave Jacob all their pagan
idols and earrings, and he buried
them under the great tree near She
chem. 5 As they set out, a terror from
God spread over the people in all the
towns of that area, so no one attacked
Jacob’s family.
6 Eventually, Jacob and his household arrived at Luz (also called Bethel)
in Canaan. 7 Jacob built an altar there
and named the place El-bethel (which
means “God of Bethel”), because God
had appeared to him there when he
was fleeing from his brother, Esau.
8 Soon after this, Re
bek
ah’s old
nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried
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beneath the oak tree in the valley
below Beth
el. Ever since, the tree
has been called Allon-bacuth (which
means “oak of weeping”).
9 Now that Jacob had returned from
Paddan-aram, God appeared to him
again at Bethel. God blessed him,
10 saying, “Your name is Jacob, but you
will not be called Jacob any longer.
From now on your name will be Is
rael.”* So God renamed him Israel.
11 Then God said, “I am
E l-
Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Be fruitful
and multiply. You will become a great
nation, even many nations. Kings will
be among your descendants! 12 And I
will give you the land I once gave to
Abraham and Isaac. Yes, I will give
it to you and your descendants after
you.” 13 Then God went up from the
place where he had spoken to Jacob.
14 Jacob set up a stone pillar to mark
the place where God had spoken to
him. Then he poured wine over it as an
offering to God and anointed the pillar with olive oil. 15 And Jacob named
the place Bethel (which means “house
of God”), because God had spoken to
him there.
16 Leaving Bethel, Jacob and his clan
