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Jacob Vows to God
Genesis 28:16-22
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Ya'akov awoke from his sleep and said, "Truly, ADONAI is in this place - and I didn't know it!"
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Then he became afraid and said, "This place is fearsome! This has to be the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!"
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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
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and named the place Beit-El [house of God]; but the town had originally been called Luz.
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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,
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so that I return to my father's house in peace, then ADONAI will be my God;
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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."
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