¹²And he dreamed that there was a stairway^m set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.^* ¹³And the Lord stood beside himⁿ and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring,^* ¹⁴and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed^o in you and in your offspring.^* ¹⁵Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”^* ¹⁶Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it!”^* ¹⁷And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

¹⁸So Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.^* ¹⁹He called that place Bethel,^p but the name of the city was Luz at the first.^*

Read in Logos

Genesis 28:12: And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

Footnotes

mOr ramp
nOr stood above it
oOr shall bless themselves
pThat is, house of God

Cross references

*Jn 1:51
*Gen 13:15; 26:24; 35:1, 12; 48:3
*Gen 12:3; 13:14–16; 18:18; 22:17, 18; 26:4
*Gen 26:3; 48:21; Num 6:24; Deut 31:6, 8; Ps 121:7, 8
*Ex 3:5; Josh 5:15
*Gen 35:14; Lev 8:10–12
*Judg 1:23, 26; Hos 4:15