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Genesis 35:5

American Standard Version

And 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.

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Genesis 35:5 in other translations

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

Genesis 35:5 · World English Bible

Genesis 35:5 in context

  1. 3and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
  2. 4And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
  3. 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.
  4. 6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him.
  5. 7And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.