Genesis 35:2

World English Bible (2000)

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יַעֲקֹב֙ אֶל־בֵּית֔וֹ וְאֶ֖ל כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר עִמּ֑וֹ הָסִ֜רוּ אֶת־אֱלֹהֵ֤י הַנֵּכָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּתֹכְכֶ֔ם וְהִֽטַּהֲר֔וּ וְהַחֲלִ֖יפוּ שִׂמְלֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And wayyōʾmer yaʿăqōb unto his bêtô and unto kol-ʾăšer ʿimmô, hāsîrû ʾet-ʾĕlōhê hannēkār ʾăšer bȇtôkȇkem, and wȇhiṭṭahărû, and wȇhaḥălîfû your śimlōtêkem.

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *yaʿăqōb*: proper noun, subject - Jacob
• *bêtô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his house/household
• *kol-ʾăšer*: construct noun + relative particle - all who/everything that
• *ʿimmô*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - with him
• *hāsîrû*: hiphil imperative masculine plural - remove/put away
• *ʾet-ʾĕlōhê*: direct object marker + masculine plural construct noun - the gods of
• *hannēkār*: article + masculine singular noun - the foreign/strange
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/that
• *bȇtôkȇkem*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - in your midst
• *wȇhiṭṭahărû*: waw consecutive + hithpael imperative masculine plural - and purify yourselves
• *wȇhaḥălîfû*: waw consecutive + hiphil imperative masculine plural - and change
• *śimlōtêkem*: feminine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your garments/clothes

Word Meanings

• *bêtô*: house/household/family
• *ʾĕlōhê hannēkār*: foreign gods/strange deities/gods of foreigners
• *hāsîrû*: remove/put away/get rid of
• *wȇhiṭṭahărû*: purify yourselves/cleanse yourselves/make yourselves ceremonially clean
• *śimlōtêkem*: garments/clothes/robes

Referenced Verses

• Exod 19:10 : 10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
• Gen 18:19 : 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
• Gen 31:19 : 19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
• Josh 24:15 : 15 If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."
• Exod 19:14 : 14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
• Josh 24:23 : 23 "Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel."
• Gen 31:34 : 34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.
• 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."
• 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
• Jude 1:23 : 23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
• 2 Sam 7:23 : 23 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?
• 2 Kgs 5:10 : 10 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean."
• 2 Kgs 5:12-13 : 12 Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash in them, and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean?'"
• 2 Kgs 17:29 : 29 However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.
• 1 Chr 16:26 : 26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.
• Job 1:5 : 5 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.
• Ps 51:2 : 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
• Ps 51:7 : 7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
• Ps 101:2-7 : 2 I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart. 3 I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. 4 A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil. 5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited. 6 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me. 7 He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.
• Eccl 5:1 : 1 Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.
• Isa 1:16 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
• Isa 52:11 : 11 Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing! Go out of the midst of her! Cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.
• Jer 5:7 : 7 "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
• Jer 13:27 : 27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
• Jer 16:20 : 20 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?
• Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
• Ezek 20:7 : 7 I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.
• Ezek 36:25 : 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• Dan 5:4 : 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
• John 13:10-11 : 10 Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you." 11 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You are not all clean."
• Acts 19:26 : 26 You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.
• 1 Cor 10:7 : 7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
• 2 Cor 6:15-17 : 15 What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people." 17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
• 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Gal 4:8 : 8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
• Heb 10:22 : 22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
• Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Gen 34:2 : 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
• Gen 34:24-25 : 24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. 25 It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
• Gen 35:22 : 22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
• Judg 10:16 : 16 They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
• Ruth 1:15 : 15 She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law."
• Josh 24:20 : 20 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."
• Exod 20:3-4 : 3 "You shall have no other gods before me. 4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
• Exod 23:13 : 13 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.
• Lev 15:5 : 5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
• Lev 17:16 : 16 But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"
• Num 31:24 : 24 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."
• Deut 5:7 : 7 "You shall have no other gods before me.
• Deut 6:14 : 14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;
• Deut 7:25 : 25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
• Deut 11:28 : 28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
• Deut 32:16 : 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
• Josh 23:7 : 7 that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;
• Josh 24:2 : 2 Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.