Bible Verses About Jacob: God confirms the covenant of Abraham to

Then suddenly ADONAI was standing there next to him; and he said, "I am ADONAI, the God of Avraham your [grand]father and the God of Yitz'chak. The land on which you are lying I will give to you and to your descendants.

Your descendants will be as numerous as the grains of dust on the earth. You will expand to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. By you and your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Look, I am with you. I will guard you wherever you go, and I will bring you back into this land, because I won't leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

Ya'akov awoke from his sleep and said, "Truly, ADONAI is in this place - and I didn't know it!"

Then he became afraid and said, "This place is fearsome! This has to be the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!"

Ya'akov got up early in the morning, took the stone he had put under his head, set it up as a standing-stone, poured olive oil on its top

and named the place Beit-El [house of God]; but the town had originally been called Luz.

Ya'akov took this vow: "If God will be with me and will guard me on this road that I am traveling, giving me bread to eat and clothes to wear,

so that I return to my father's house in peace, then ADONAI will be my God;

and this stone, which I have set up as a standing-stone, will be God's house; and of everything you give me, I will faithfully return one-tenth to you."

After Ya'akov arrived from Paddan-Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

God said to him, "Your name is Ya'akov, but you will be called Ya'akov no longer; your name will be Isra'el."Thus he named him Isra'el.

God further said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed a group of nations, will come from you; kings will be descended from you.

Moreover, the land which I gave to Avraham and Yitz'chak I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you."

Then God went up from him there where he had spoken with him.

Ya'akov set up a standing-stone in the place where he had spoken with him, a stone pillar. Then he poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

Ya'akov called the place where God spoke with him Beit-El.

You descendants of Isra'el his servant, you offspring of Ya'akov, his chosen ones:

he is ADONAI our God, His judgments are everywhere on earth.

Remember his covenant forever, the word he commanded to a thousand generations,

the covenant he made with Avraham; the oath he swore to Yitz'chak

and established as a law for Ya'akov, for Isra'el as an everlasting covenant:

"To you I will give the land of Kena'an as your allotted heritage."