³ Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God,^(A) who answered me in the day of my distress^(B) and who has been with me wherever I have gone.^(C)” ⁴ So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears,^(D) and Jacob buried them under the oak^(E) at Shechem.^{(F) 5} Then they set out, and the terror of God^(G) fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.^(H)