Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 28

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I am with you. I will take care of you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you. I will do what I have promised to do for you.’

The LORD stood at the top of the steps. He said, ‘I am the LORD. I am the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of Isaac, your father. I will give the land that you are lying on to you and to your descendants.

Jacob woke from his sleep. He thought, ‘The LORD is in this place and I did not know it.’

Then Jacob made a promise to God. He said, ‘While I am on this journey, I want God to be with me. I want him to protect me. I want him to give me food to eat and clothes to wear. Then I want to return to my father's house. If God keeps me safe, then the LORD will be my God. This special stone that I have put here will be God's house. And from everything that God gives me, I will give him one tenth.’

Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will go to the west and to the east. They will go to the north and to the south. Through you and your descendants I will bless all the families of people on the earth.

Jacob called that place Bethel. Before that, the name of the place had been Luz.