Genesis 35:3
Good News Translation
We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone."

New Revised Standard Version
then come, let us go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Contemporary English Version
Afterwards, we'll go to Bethel. I will build an altar there for God, who answered my prayers when I was in trouble and who has always been at my side.

New American Bible
Let us now go up to Bethel so that I might build an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey.

who answered.

Genesis 28:12,13 And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it. . . .

Genesis 32:7,24 Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies, . . .

Psalm 46:1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden. [2] Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly.

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 66:13,14 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, . . .

Psalm 91:15 He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

Psalm 103:1-5 For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name. . . .

Psalm 107:6,8 And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered them out of their distresses. . . .

Psalm 116:1,2,16-18 I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. . . .

Psalm 118:19-22 Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go in to them, and give praise to the Lord. . . .

Isaiah 30:19 For the people of Sion shall dwell in Jerusalem: weeping thou shalt not weep, he will surely have pity on thee: at the voice of thy cry, as soon as he shall hear, he will answer thee.

was with.

Genesis 28:20 And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Genesis 31:3,42 Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee. . . .

Proverbs 3:6 Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil:

Isaiah 43:2 When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee:

Context
Jacob Returns to Bethel
2And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments. 3Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey.4So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.…
Cross References
Genesis 28:15
And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.

Genesis 28:20
And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Genesis 31:3
Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.

Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

Genesis 35:4
So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.

Genesis 35:7
And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.

1 Samuel 10:3
And when thou shalt depart from thence, and go farther on, and shalt come to the oak of Thabor, there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine.

Psalm 107:6
And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered them out of their distresses.

Genesis 35:2
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