Jacob’s Dream at Bethel

28:10-22

10 And Jacob left from Beersheba and set out for Haran. 11 Then he reached a certain place, and he stopped there because the sun had gone. And he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and he lay down in that place. 12 And he dreamed, and behold, a stairway was set up on the earth and its top reached to the heavens, and behold, angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 And behold, Yahweh was standing above it, and he said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your grandfather and the God of Isaac. The land that you are lying on I will give to you and to your offspring. 14 And your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And in you and in your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed. 15 And behold, I am with you, and I will watch over you in every place that you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” 16 Then Jacob woke up from his sleep and said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, but I did not know it!” 17 So he was afraid and said, “How awesome this place is! This is nothing other than the house of God, and this is the gateway of heaven!”

18 Then in the morning Jacob got up early, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and stood it up as a pillar, and he poured oil on its top. 19 And he called the name of that place Bethel, even though Luz had been the name of the town at first.

20 Then Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this road that I am walking on and give to me bread to eat and clothes to wear, 21 and if I return in peace to the home of my father, then Yahweh will be God to me, 22 and this stone that I have stood up as a pillar will be the house of God, and all that you give to me I will tithe a tenth to you.”