Genesis 35:2

Jacob Goes Back To Bethel

¹ And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau. ² Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing: ³ And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

Foreign Gods

Purify Yourselves

Put on

Turn Aside

Be Clean

Strange Gods

Jacob

Genesis 18:19

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

Exodus 19:10

And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.

Joshua 24:15

And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.

Exodus 19:14

Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed.

Genesis 31:34

Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

Joshua 24:23

Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Samuel 7:3

Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

Genesis 34:2

And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.

Genesis 34:24-25

Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.

Genesis 35:22

Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

Exodus 20:3-4

You are to have no other gods but me.

Exodus 23:13

Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

Leviticus 15:5

And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 17:16

But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.

Numbers 31:24

And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle.

Deuteronomy 5:7

You are to have no other gods but me.

Deuteronomy 6:14

Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 11:28

And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and go after other gods which are not yours.

Deuteronomy 32:16

The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

Joshua 23:7

Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.

Joshua 24:20

If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.

Judges 10:16

So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.

Ruth 1:15

And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.

2 Samuel 7:23

And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?

2 Kings 5:10

And Elisha sent a servant to him, saying, Go to Jordan, and after washing seven times in its waters your flesh will be well again and you will be clean.

2 Kings 5:12-13

Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not be washed in them and become clean? So turning, he went away in wrath.

2 Kings 17:29

And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.

1 Chronicles 16:26

For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

Job 1:5

And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

Psalm 51:2

Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

Psalm 51:7

Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.

Isaiah 1:16

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Isaiah 52:11

Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:7

How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?

Jeremiah 16:20

Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

Ezekiel 18:31

Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

Ezekiel 20:7

And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

Ezekiel 36:25

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

Daniel 5:4

They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

John 13:10-11

Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you.

Acts 19:26

And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:

1 Corinthians 10:7

Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

2 Corinthians 6:15-17

And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?

2 Corinthians 7:1

Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

Galatians 4:8

But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

Hebrews 10:22

Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

James 4:8

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

1 Peter 2:1-2

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

Jude 1:23

And to some give salvation, pulling them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the clothing which is made unclean by the flesh.