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Genesis 35:4

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

KJV

Dederunt ergo ei omnes deos alienos quos habebant, et inaures quæ erant in auribus eorum : at ille infodit ea subter terebinthum, quæ est post urbem Sichem.

Vulgate

καὶ ἔδωκαν τῷ Ἰακὼβ τοὺς θεοὺς τοὺς ἀλλοτρίους οἳ ἦσαν ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ ἐνώτια τὰ ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶν αὐτῶν· καὶ κατέκρυψεν αὐτὰ Ἰακὼβ ὑπὸ τὴν τερέβινθον τὴν ἐν Σικίμοις, καὶ ἀπώλεσεν αὐτὰ ἕως τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας.

LXX

And 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.

ASV

וַ/יִּתְּנ֣וּ אֶֽל יַעֲקֹ֗ב אֵ֣ת כָּל אֱלֹהֵ֤י הַ/נֵּכָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ/יָדָ֔/ם וְ/אֶת הַ/נְּזָמִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ/אָזְנֵי/הֶ֑ם וַ/יִּטְמֹ֤ן אֹתָ/ם֙ יַעֲקֹ֔ב תַּ֥חַת הָ/אֵלָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר עִם שְׁכֶֽם

Hebrew

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People JacobJacob

In the original Hebrew

16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֵלָ֖ה
'lh
noun · 13×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אָזְנֵ֣י
'zny
noun · 188×
הוּ
hv
verb · 31×
ו
v
noun · 505×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
יַעֲקֹ֖ב
y'qb
proper_noun · 346×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
נֵכָֽר
nkr
noun · 36×
נֶ֣זֶם
nzm
noun · 17×
עִם
'm
preposition · 1043×
שְׁכֶ֔ם
shkm
proper_noun · 63×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 19:19 — Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
  • Deut 7:25 — The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the L
  • Exod 32:2 — And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
  • Exod 32:20 — And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
  • Gen 12:6 — And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
  • Hos 2:13 — And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
  • Isa 2:20 — In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
  • Isa 30:22 — Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence
  • Josh 24:2 — And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and
  • Josh 24:26 — And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
  • Judg 8:24 — And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
  • Judg 9:6 — And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.