For the first time in his life, Jacob summons his family to worship God saying: Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone." Genesis 35:3 (ESV) "Wherever I have gone." These four words carry so much weight for Jacob. "Wherever I have gone" includes God's omnipresent knowledge and presence while Jacob deceives family, shows favoritism to wives and children, dabbles in witchcraft, suffers rape of family members, presides over murder,...