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Jacob Vows to God
Genesis 28:16-22
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And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;'
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and he feareth, and saith, `How fearful is this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.'
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And Jacob riseth early in the morning, and taketh the stone which he hath made his pillows, and maketh it a standing pillar, and poureth oil upon its top,
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and he calleth the name of that place Bethel, house of God, and yet, Luz is the name of the city at the first.
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And Jacob voweth a vow, saying, `Seeing God is with me, and hath kept me in this way which I am going, and hath given to me bread to eat, and a garment to put on--
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when I have turned back in peace unto the house of my father, and Jehovah hath become my God,
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then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that Thou dost give to me--tithing I tithe to Thee.'
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