'Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make
there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when
thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother,'
GENESIS XXXV. 1.
Thirty years at least had passed since Jacob's vow; ten or twenty since
his return. He is in no haste to fulfil it, but has settled down at
Shechem and bought land there, and seems to have forgotten all about
Bethel.