Genesis 35:5
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
In context
3 Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
4 So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
5 As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
6 So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
7 There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
Genesis 35:5 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
- KJV King James Version
- And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
- WEB World English Bible
- They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.
- ASV 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which [are] round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that were round them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.