Text -- Genesis 35:3 (NET)

35:3 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.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 35:3

¹ tn Heb “let us arise and let us go up.” The first cohortative gives the statement a sense of urgency.

² tn The cohortative with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or consequence.

³ tn Heb “day of distress.” See Ps 20:1 which utilizes similar language.

⁴ tn Heb “in the way in which I went.” Jacob alludes here to God’s promise to be with him (see Gen 28:20).