Genesis 35:2

Jacob Goes Back To Bethel

¹ Later, God told Jacob, "Get up, move to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau." ² Jacob announced to his household and to everyone with him, "Throw away the foreign gods that you've kept among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes. ³ Then let's get up and go to Bethel, where I'll build an altar to the God who answered me when I was in distress and who was with me on the road, wherever I went."

Foreign Gods

Purify Yourselves

Put on

Turn Aside

Be Clean

Strange Gods

Jacob

Genesis 18:19

Indeed, I've made myself known to him in order that he may encourage his sons and his household that is born after him to keep the way of the LORD, and to do what is right and just, so that the LORD may bring about for Abraham what he has promised."

Genesis 31:19

Meanwhile, Laban had been out shearing his sheep. While he was away, Rachel stole her father's personal idols.

Exodus 19:10

The LORD told Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes,

Joshua 24:15

If you think it's the wrong thing for you to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve the gods whom your ancestors served on the other side of the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose territories you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

Exodus 19:14

When Moses went down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated the people, and they washed their clothes.

Genesis 31:34

Meanwhile, Rachel had taken the idols, placed them inside the saddle of her camel, and sat on them. Laban searched through the whole tent, but found nothing.

Joshua 24:23

Joshua said, "Therefore abandon the foreign gods that are among you, and turn your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel."

1 Samuel 7:3

Then Samuel told the whole house of Israel, "If you're returning to the LORD with all your heart, then remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, direct your hearts back to the LORD, and serve him only. Then he will deliver you from the control of the Philistines."

Genesis 34:2

When Hamor the Hivite's son Shechem, the regional leader, saw her, he grabbed her and raped her, humiliating her.

Genesis 34:24-25

All of the males who heard Hamor and his son Shechem, who had gone out to the city gate, were circumcised.

Genesis 35:22

But while Israel lived in that land, Reuben went inside his father's tent and had sexual relations with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons.

Exodus 20:3-4

You are to have no other gods as a substitute for me.

Exodus 23:13

"Be careful about everything I've told you, and don't mention the name of other gods. Don't let them be heard in your mouth!"

Leviticus 15:5

Any person who touches his bed is to wash his garments and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Leviticus 17:16

But if he doesn't wash or bathe his body, then he is to bear the punishment of his iniquity."

Numbers 31:24

Wash your clothes on the seventh day, after which you will be clean. Then you may enter the camp."

Deuteronomy 5:7

You are to have no other gods as a substitute for me.

Deuteronomy 6:14

Do not follow other gods, from the gods of the nations around you.

Deuteronomy 7:25

Burn the images of their gods in the fire. Desire neither the silver nor the gold that adorns them, nor take them for yourselves, so you won't be ensnared by them, because the gold and silver is detestable to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 11:28

or a curse if you don't obey the commands of the LORD your God, by turning from the way that I'm commanding you today and following other gods whom you have not known."

Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things.

Joshua 23:7

That way, you will not mingle with those nations that remain among you, nor mention the name of their gods, nor make oaths by them, nor serve them, nor worship them.

Joshua 24:2

and Joshua told all of the people, "This is what the LORD God of Israel has to say:

Joshua 24:20

If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign deities, then he will turn and do you harm, consuming you after all the good he has done for you."

Judges 10:16

When they put away their foreign gods and served the LORD, he brought Israel's misery to an end.

Ruth 1:15

Naomi told Ruth, "Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods. Follow your sister-in-law!"

2 Samuel 7:23

"And who is like your people, like Israel, the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, to make a name for himself, and to carry out for them great and awe-inspiring accomplishments, driving out nations and their gods in front of your people, whom you redeemed to yourself from Egypt?

2 Kings 5:10

Elisha sent a messenger out to him, who told him, "Go bathe in the Jordan River seven times. Your flesh will be restored for you. Now stay clean!"

2 Kings 5:12-13

Aren't the Abana and Pharpar rivers in Damascus better than all of the water in Israel? Couldn't I just bathe in them and become clean?" So he turned away and left, filled with anger.

2 Kings 17:29

Nevertheless, each nation continued to craft their own gods and install them in the temples on the high places that the people of Samaria had constructed every nation in their own cities where they continued to live.

1 Chronicles 16:26

For all of the gods of the other nations are mere idols, but the LORD fashioned the heavens!

Job 1:5

When their time of feasting had concluded, Job would rise early in the morning to send for them and consecrate them to God. He would offer a burnt offering for each one, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children sinned by cursing God in their hearts." Job did this time and again.

Psalm 51:2

Wash me from my iniquity, cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 51:7

Purge me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Psalm 101:2-7

I will pay attention to living a life of integrity when will I attain it? I will live with integrity of heart in my house.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Watch your step whenever you visit God's house, and come more ready to listen than to offer a fool's sacrifice, since fools never think they're doing evil.

Isaiah 1:16

"Wash yourselves, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.

Isaiah 52:11

"Depart! Depart! Go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

Jeremiah 5:7

Why should I forgive you? Your sons have forsaken me, and you have sworn by those who aren't gods. When I gave them enough food to satisfy them, they committed adultery and marched to the prostitute's house.

Jeremiah 13:27

I've seen your detestable behavior: your adulteries, your passionate neighing, your lewd immorality on the hills in the field. How terrible it will be for you, Jerusalem! You are unclean. How much longer will this go on?"

Jeremiah 16:20

Can a person make a god for himself? They are not gods!

Ezekiel 18:31

Stop your transgressing the deeds by which you've rebelled and then make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, you house of Israel?

Ezekiel 20:7

Then I told them, "Each of you are to abandon your detestable practices. You are not to defile yourselves with Egypt's idols. I am the LORD your God.'"'"

Ezekiel 36:25

I'll sprinkle pure water on you all, and you'll be cleansed from your impurity and from all of your idols."

Daniel 5:4

As they drank the wine, they praised gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

John 13:10-11

Jesus told him, "Whoever has bathed is entirely clean. He doesn't need to wash himself further, except for his feet. And you men are clean, though not all of you."

Acts 19:26

You also see and hear that, not only in Ephesus, but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has won over and taken away a large crowd by telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.

1 Corinthians 10:7

Let's stop being idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to play."

2 Corinthians 6:15-17

What harmony exists between the Messiah and Beliar, or what do a believer and an unbeliever have in common?

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, dear friends, let's cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by becoming mature in our holy fear of God.

Galatians 4:8

However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.

Hebrews 10:22

let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in the full assurance that faith provides, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

James 4:8

Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

1 Peter 2:1-2

Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

Jude 1:23

Save others by snatching them from the fire. To others, show mercy with fear, hating even the clothes stained by their sinful lives.