Put Away the Foreign Gods

Note from today’s Bible reading: Genesis 32-35

God called Jacob to “go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there” (Genesis 35:1). Jacob told his household that they would do what God called him to do because God had “answered [him] in the day of [his] distress and has been with [him] wherever [he had] gone” (Genesis 35:3).

However, God was not just Jacob’s preferred deity among the many “g…