These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 28
Tanakh 22 verses
- 1 And called , and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him: ‘Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of .
- 2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
- 3 And Almighty thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a congregation of peoples;
- 4 and give thee the of , to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which gave unto .’
- 5 And sent away ; and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of , Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
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Now saw that had blessed and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying: ‘Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan’;
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and that hearkened to his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram;
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and saw that the daughters of pleased not his father;
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so went unto , and took unto the wives that he had Mahalath the daughter of Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
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And went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
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And he lighted upon the place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
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And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to ; and behold the angels of ascending and descending on it.
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John 1:51 Numbers 12:6 Genesis 20:3 Job 33:15-16 Daniel 2:1-49 Genesis 20:6-7 Matthew 1:20 Hebrews 1:1 Daniel 7:1 Genesis 37:5-11 Daniel 4:1-37 Isaiah 41:10 Genesis 40:1-23 Genesis 15:12 Genesis 32:1-2 Matthew 2:12-13 Matthew 2:19 2 Timothy 4:16-17 2 Chronicles 16:9 Job 4:12-21 Hebrews 1:14 Genesis 15:1 -
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And, behold, stood beside him, and said: ‘I am , the of thy father, and the of . The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
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Genesis 13:15 Genesis 35:12 Genesis 48:3 Genesis 12:7 Genesis 35:1 Genesis 26:24 Genesis 32:9 Hebrews 11:16 Genesis 17:6-7 Ezekiel 37:24-25 Exodus 3:15-16 Genesis 15:1 Matthew 22:32 Genesis 31:42 Exodus 3:6 Genesis 28:4 Genesis 26:3 Genesis 46:3 Genesis 35:17 Genesis 35:15 Psalm 105:11 Genesis 35:6-7 Acts 7:5 - 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.’
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Joshua 1:5 Isaiah 41:10 Deuteronomy 31:6 Genesis 26:24 Jeremiah 1:19 Psalm 121:5-8 Genesis 31:3 Hebrews 13:5-6 1 Kings 8:57 John 10:28-29 Isaiah 43:2 Joshua 23:14-16 Matthew 24:35 Psalm 46:7 Genesis 28:20-21 Matthew 18:20 Genesis 26:3 Romans 8:31-32 Psalm 46:11 Genesis 39:2 Jude 1:1 Genesis 32:9 1 Timothy 4:8 Genesis 46:4 Genesis 48:21 Genesis 39:21 Judges 6:16 Matthew 28:20 Numbers 23:19 Isaiah 7:14 Isaiah 8:10 Exodus 3:12 Genesis 35:6-7 Genesis 48:16 -
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And awaked out of his sleep, and he said: ‘Surely is in this place; and I knew it not.’
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- 17 And he was afraid, and said: ‘How full of awe is this place! this is none other than the house of , and this is the gate of .’
- 18 And 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 upon the top of it.
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And he called the of that place Beth-el, but the of the city was Luz at the first.
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And vowed a vow, saying: ‘If will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
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2 Samuel 15:8 1 Timothy 6:8 Genesis 31:13 Numbers 21:2-3 Psalm 61:8 1 Samuel 1:28 Acts 18:18 Psalm 66:13 Leviticus 27:1-34 John 1:16 Psalm 116:18 Isaiah 19:21 Psalm 61:5 Psalm 22:25 Acts 23:12-15 Judges 11:30-31 Psalm 56:12 Numbers 6:1-20 1 Samuel 14:24 Nehemiah 9:1-10 Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 Genesis 28:15 Psalm 76:11 Psalm 116:14 1 Samuel 1:11 Psalm 119:106 Psalm 132:2 -
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so that I come back to my father’s house in , then shall be my ,
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- 22 and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be Elohim’s house; and of all that Thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee.’