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Genesis 28 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Jacob's Ladder
10 Therefore Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.
11 And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sun set, he took one of the stones that lay there, and putting in under his head, slept in the same place.
12 And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, & the top thereof touching heaven: the Angels also of God ascending & descending by it,
13 and our Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, & the God of Isaac: the Land wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt be dilated to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the South: and IN THEE AND THY SEED ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.
15 And I will be thy keeper whither soever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all things which I have said.
16 And when Jacob was awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed our Lord is in this place, and I wist not.
17 And trembling he said: How terrible is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.
Stone of Bethel
18 And Jacob arising in the morning took the stone, which he had laid under his head, and erected it for a title, pouring oil upon the top.
19 And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.
20 And he vowed a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by the which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
21 and I shall be returned prosperously to my father's house, the Lord shall be my God,
22 and this stone, which I have erected for a title, shall be called the House of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.
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