Genesis 35:1-15 and Matthew 22:15-22 (NIV)

Genesis 35:1-15
Jacob Return to Bethel
1    Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
2    So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.
3    Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”
4    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.
5    Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.
6    Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
7    There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8    Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.
9    After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
10  God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.
11  And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
12  The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
13  Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.
14  Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.
15  Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.



Matthew 22:15-22
Paying Taxes to Caesar
15  Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words.
16  They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are.
17  Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax to Caesar or not?”
18  But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?
19  Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius,
20  and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21  “Caesar’s,” they replied.  Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
22  When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.