OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 19

Genesis 28:19

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

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

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Genesis 28:16–22

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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.

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

20

Jacob vowed 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 put on,

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so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and the LORD will be my God,

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then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”

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