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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 35:3
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And let us arise and go up to Bethel, etc.] Thus prepared and purged, their tents clear of idols, their bodies washed with pure water, and their garments new, neat, and clean; all symbolical of inward purity, and of freedom from idolatry and evil works, as became those who go to the house of God, and are his worshippers, (see <581022>Hebrews 10:22). I will make there an altar unto God; as he has directed, and sacrifice to him, and worship him, and give the tenth unto him, and so make it a Bethel, an house of God indeed, as he had vowed, (<012822>Genesis 28:22); who answered me in the day of my distress; on account of his brother Esau, from whose wrath he fled: and was with me in the way which I went; from his father’s house to Padanaram; in which journey he was alone and destitute, and exposed to many difficulties and dangers, but God was with him, and preserved him, and directed and brought him to Laban’s house in safety.
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