InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
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Gen 28 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV And_he_was_afraid and_he_said how awesome is_the_place the_this is_not this if/because (if) the_house_of god and_this is_the_gate_of the_heavens.
OET (OET-RV) So he was afraid and said to himself, “This place is spine-chilling—it’s nothing other than God’s house, and it’s heaven’s gateway.”
וַיִּירָא֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר
(Some words not found in UHB: and,he_was_afraid and,he_said what? awesome [is]_the,place the=this not this that/for/because/then/when if house_of ʼElohīm and=this gate_of the=heavens )
Alternate translation: [He was afraid, so he also said]
מַה־נּוֹרָ֖א הַמָּק֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה
what? awesome (Some words not found in UHB: and,he_was_afraid and,he_said what? awesome [is]_the,place the=this not this that/for/because/then/when if house_of ʼElohīm and=this gate_of the=heavens )
The word awesome refers here to the terror that Jacob was feeling from being in the holy presence of Almighty God. Alternate translation: [This is an awesome place!] or [This place is terrifying!]
אֵ֣ין זֶ֗ה כִּ֚י אִם־בֵּ֣ית אֱלֹהִ֔ים
not this (Some words not found in UHB: and,he_was_afraid and,he_said what? awesome [is]_the,place the=this not this that/for/because/then/when if house_of ʼElohīm and=this gate_of the=heavens )
Alternate translation: [It must be the house where God himself lives!]
וְזֶ֖ה שַׁ֥עַר הַשָּׁמָֽיִם
and=this (Some words not found in UHB: and,he_was_afraid and,he_said what? awesome [is]_the,place the=this not this that/for/because/then/when if house_of ʼElohīm and=this gate_of the=heavens )
Alternate translation: [It can only be the gateway to heaven!] or [It must be the gateway to heaven!]
OET-LV And_he_was_afraid and_he_said how awesome is_the_place the_this is_not this if/because (if) the_house_of god and_this is_the_gate_of the_heavens.
OET (OET-RV) So he was afraid and said to himself, “This place is spine-chilling—it’s nothing other than God’s house, and it’s heaven’s gateway.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.