Jacob now appears to have come to the realization that God has been with him all along on this journey, not just since he left Laban, but all of his life. He also has come to the place of realizing the holiness of God and that having all of these household idols in their hands and earrings in their ears was making them unclean before a holy God. Now the law hadn’t been written yet, that would come much later, but the first commandment given to Moses written in stone by the finger of God is: