Genesis 35:2

Jacob calls his household to put away foreign gods, purify themselves, and change their garments.

Cross-references · 40

• Exod 19:10Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
• Exod 19:14When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
• Ezek 18:31Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
• Jas 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Gen 18:19For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
• Ezek 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
• Josh 24:15But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
• Heb 10:22let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
• Josh 24:23“Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
• Gen 31:19Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
• Deut 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
• Gen 31:34Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
• 2 Cor 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• 1 Sam 7:3Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
• Lev 15:5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
• Lev 17:16But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”
• Deut 11:28but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
• Jer 5:7“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
• Ezek 20:7And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’
• Deut 6:14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
• Num 31:24On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”
• Deut 7:25You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
• Deut 5:7You shall have no other gods before Me.
• Exod 23:13Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.
• Exod 20:3–4You shall have no other gods before Me.
• Judg 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
• Josh 24:20If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”
• 2 Kgs 5:10Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
• Ps 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
• Ps 101:2–7I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.
• Ruth 1:15“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
• 2 Kgs 17:29Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.
• Jude 1:23save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
• Dan 5:4As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
• Gen 34:24–25All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.
• John 13:10–11Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”
• Jer 16:20Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”
• Gen 34:2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
• 2 Sam 7:23And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.

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