Bible Verses About Jacob: Prophecies concerning himself and descendants

God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine.

And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings.

But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.

And 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.

And 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.

And 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.

And 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.

And 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.

And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,

Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.

And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

And he departed from him.

And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left.