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Genesis 28:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.” "

Genesis 28:17

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15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”

17 He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”

18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

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Genesis 28:1

"Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan."

Genesis 28:2

"Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother."

Genesis 28:3

"May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,"

Genesis 28:4

"and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”"

Genesis 28:5

"Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother."

Genesis 28:6

"Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”"

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