4. So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings, and he buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.
5. While Jacob and his family were travelling through Canaan, God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them.
6. Finally, they reached Bethel, also known as Luz.
7. Jacob built an altar there and called it “God of Bethel”, because that was the place where God had appeared to him when he was running from Esau.