Bible Verses About Jacob: Prophecies concerning himself and descendants

and God doth give to thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of corn and wine;

peoples serve thee, and nations bow themselves to thee, be thou mighty over thy brethren, and the sons of thy mother bow themselves to thee; those who curse thee are cursed, and those who bless thee are blessed.'

And Jacob goeth out from Beer-Sheba, and goeth toward Haran,

and he toucheth at a certain place, and lodgeth there, for the sun hath gone in, and he taketh of the stones of the place, and maketh them his pillows, and lieth down in that place.

And he dreameth, and lo, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and lo, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it;

and lo, Jehovah is standing upon it, and He saith, `I am Jehovah, God of Abraham thy father, and God of Isaac; the land on which thou art lying, to thee I give it, and to thy seed;

and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.

`And lo, I am with thee, and have kept thee whithersoever thou goest, and have caused thee to turn back unto this ground; for I leave thee not till that I have surely done that which I have spoken to thee.'

And God appeareth unto Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him;

and God saith to him, `Thy name is Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;' and He calleth his name Israel.

And God saith to him, `I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out;

and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac--to thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.'

And God goeth up from him, in the place where He hath spoken with him.

And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel--a covenant age-during,

Saying, `To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,'