Jacob's Dream
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Jacob left p Beersheba and went toward q Haran.
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And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.
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And he r dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, s the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
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And behold, t the Lord stood above it and said, u "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. v The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
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Your offspring shall be like w the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and x your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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Behold, y I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and z will bring you back to this land. For I will a not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
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Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is b in this place, and I did not know it."
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And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
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So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up c for a pillar d and poured oil on the top of it.
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He called the name of that place e Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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Then Jacob f made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
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g so that I come again to my father's house in peace, h then the Lord shall be my God,
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and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, i shall be God's house. And j of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you."
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
Genesis 26:33
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
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Acts 7:2
And Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
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Numbers 12:6
And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.
Job 33:15 - 16
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds.
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John 1:51
And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.
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Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
Genesis 48:3
And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
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Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
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Genesis 35:12
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.
Genesis 13:14 - 16
The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward.
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Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
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Genesis 35:6
And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
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1 Kings 8:57
The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us.
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Exodus 3:5
Then he said, "Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
Joshua 5:15
And the commander of the Lord 's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.
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Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'
Genesis 31:45
So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
Genesis 35:14
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
1 Samuel 7:12
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, "Till now the Lord has helped us.
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
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Leviticus 8:10 - 11
Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Numbers 7:1
On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils.
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Genesis 35:7
And there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
Judges 1:23
And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. ( Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
Judges 1:26
And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.
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Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.
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Judges 11:31
Then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord 's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
2 Samuel 15:7 - 9
And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.
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Deuteronomy 26:17
You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
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Genesis 35:7
And there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
Genesis 35:14
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
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Genesis 14:20
And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
Leviticus 27:30 - 33
Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord 's; it is holy to the Lord.
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