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Genesis Chapter 28

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GENESIS

Genesis 28

1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:
Genesis 24:3, Genesis 24:3, Genesis 28:3, Genesis 28:4, Genesis 27:46
2But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle.
Genesis 25:20, Genesis 25:20, Hosea 12:12, Hosea 12:12, Genesis 35:9
3And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.
Genesis 48:3, Genesis 48:3, Genesis 35:11, Genesis 35:11, Genesis 9:1
4And give the blessings of Abraham to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather.
Galatians 3:14, Galatians 3:14, Genesis 12:7, Genesis 12:7, Ephesians 1:3
5And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother to Rebecca, his mother.
6And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan:
Genesis 27:33, Genesis 28:1, Genesis 27:33, Genesis 28:1
7And that Jacob obeying his parents, was gone into Syria:
Proverbs 30:17, Ephesians 6:3, Colossians 3:20, Leviticus 19:3, Exodus 20:12
8Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:
Genesis 24:3, Genesis 24:3, Genesis 26:34, Genesis 26:35, Genesis 26:34
9He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before, Maheleth, the daughter of Ismael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nabajoth.
Genesis 36:3, Genesis 36:3, Genesis 25:13, Genesis 25:17, Genesis 36:13
10But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.
Genesis 11:31, Genesis 32:10, Acts 7:2, Genesis 11:31, Genesis 32:10
11And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place.
Genesis 28:18, 2 Corinthians 1:5, Matthew 8:20, Genesis 28:18, 2 Corinthians 1:5
12And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.
John 1:51, John 1:51, Genesis 32:1, Genesis 32:2, Numbers 12:6
13And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.
Genesis 13:15, Genesis 13:15, Genesis 35:12, Genesis 48:3, Genesis 35:12
14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.
Genesis 12:3, Genesis 12:3, Genesis 26:4, Genesis 26:4, Genesis 22:18
15And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.
Joshua 1:5, Joshua 1:5, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:10, Deuteronomy 31:6
16And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
Joshua 5:15, Joshua 5:15, Exodus 15:11, Exodus 3:5, Exodus 15:11
17And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.
1 Timothy 3:15, 1 Timothy 3:15, Genesis 35:1, Genesis 35:13, Exodus 3:6
18And Jacob arising in the morning, took the stone which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it.
Genesis 35:14, Genesis 35:14, Genesis 31:45, Leviticus 8:10, Leviticus 8:12
19And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.
Hosea 12:4, Hosea 12:5, Hosea 12:4, Hosea 12:5, Genesis 35:1
20And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
1 Timothy 6:8, 1 Timothy 6:8, 2 Samuel 15:8, 2 Samuel 15:8, Psalms 66:13
21And I shall return prosperously to my father's house: the Lord shall be my God:
Judges 11:31, Judges 11:31, Deuteronomy 26:17, Deuteronomy 26:17, 2 Samuel 19:24
22And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called the house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.
Genesis 35:7, Genesis 35:7, Genesis 14:20, Genesis 14:20, Deuteronomy 14:22

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