Verse 17
Genesis 28:17
Literal Standard Version
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and he fears and says, “How fearful is this place; this is nothing but a house of God (Elohim), and this a gate of the heavens.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּירָא֙ וַ/יֹּאמַ֔ר מַה נּוֹרָ֖א הַ/מָּק֣וֹם הַ/זֶּ֑ה אֵ֣ין זֶ֗ה כִּ֚י אִם בֵּ֣ית אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְ/זֶ֖ה שַׁ֥עַר הַ/שָּׁמָֽיִם
English Translation
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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Chapter 28 Context
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rise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take for yourself a wife f...
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and God (Elohim) Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and you have become an...
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and He gives to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, to cause you to posse...
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And Isaac sends Jacob away, and he goes to Padan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother...
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And Esau sees that Isaac has blessed Jacob, and has sent him to Padan-Aram to take to himself from t...
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that Jacob listens to his father and to his mother, and goes to Padan-Aram—
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and Esau sees that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of his father Isaac,
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and Esau goes to Ishmael, and takes Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, sister of Nebajoth...
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10
And Jacob goes out from Beer-Sheba, and goes toward Haran,
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and he touches at a certain place, and lodges there, for the sun has gone in, and he takes of the st...
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12
And he dreams, and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and b...
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and behold, YHWH is standing on it, and He says, “I am YHWH, God (Elohim) of your father Abraham, an...
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and your seed has been as the dust of the land, and you have broken forth westward, and eastward, an...
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15
And behold, I am with you, and have kept you wherever you go, and have caused you to return to this...
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16
And Jacob awakens out of his sleep and says, “Surely YHWH is in this place, and I did not know”;
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17
and he fears and says, “How fearful is this place; this is nothing but a house of God (Elohim), and...
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And Jacob rises early in the morning, and takes the stone which he has made his pillows, and makes i...
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and he calls the name of that place Bethel, house of God (Elohim), and yet, Luz is the name of the c...
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And Jacob vows a vow, saying, “Seeing God (Elohim) is with me, and has kept me in this way which I a...
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when I have turned back in peace to the house of my father, and YHWH has become my God (Elohim),
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then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God (Elohim), and all that You giv...
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