Genesis 35:4

Hebrew Bible

3 Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.” 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem 5 and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

LXX Genesis 35:4

Septuagint

3 and arise, let us go up to Baithel, and let us make an altar there to the God who hearkened to me in a day of distress, who was with me and preserved me on the road that I traveled.” 4 And they gave to Iakob the foreign gods that were in their hands and the earrings in their ears, and Iakob hid them under the terebinth in Sikima, and he destroyed them to the present day. 5 And Israel rose up from Sikima, and a divine fear came upon the cities all around them, and they did not go in pursuit after the sons of Israel.

 Notes and References
"... Clearly Jacob did not destroy them because he still had something left to hide after this. For the verb አስቀመጠ ("he placed, established"), compare the LXX plus at the end of LXX Genesis 35:4: καὶ ἀπώλεσεν αὐτὰ ἕως τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας ("and he destroyed them until this day") ..."

VanderKam, James C. The Book of Jubilees (p. 201) Peeters, 1989

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