OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 35:2

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

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Verse 2. Strange gods, which his servants had reserved in the plundering of Sichem; perhaps he had also been informed of Rachel’s theft. D.—Garments; put on your cleanest and best attire, to testify the purity with which you ought to approach to the service of God. Menochius.—See Exod. 19:10. Leviticus 15:13.

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