18 In time Jacob came safe and sound to the city of Sheʹchem,+ which is in the land of Caʹnaan,+ while he was coming from Padʹdan-aʹram;+ and he pitched camp in front of the city.

4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods+ that were in their hands and the earrings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid+ them under the big tree that was close by Sheʹchem.

21 Accordingly they gave them the city of refuge+ for the manslayer,+ namely, Sheʹchem,+ and its pasture ground+ in the mountainous region of Eʹphra·im, and Geʹzer+ and its pasture ground,

24 And Joshua proceeded to assemble all the tribes of Israel together at Sheʹchem*+ and to call the older men of Israel+ and its heads and its judges and its officers, and they went taking their stand before the [true] God.+

9 In time A·bimʹe·lech+ the son of Jer·ub·baʹal went to Sheʹchem+ to the brothers of his mother and began speaking to them and to all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying: