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What does Genesis 35:4 mean?

They handed over all the foreign gods they had, along with their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak tree near Shechem. Genesis 35:4 - Modern Text Bible

(The family gives up their idols and symbols of foreign worship, and Jacob buries them, making a clean break with the past.)