“And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.”
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. The handing over of foreign gods and earrings — the material objects associated with alternative devotions — is the household's compliance with Jacob's command. The burial under the oak is the permanent removal: these objects are not thrown away to be retrieved but buried. The application: the removal of alternative devotions from the household requires more than putting them aside — they must be permanently relinquished.
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