Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 28

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“I am with you, and I will protect you everywhere you go. I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised.”

And then Jacob saw the LORD standing by the ladder. He said, “I am the standing by the ladder. He said, “I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham. I am the God of Isaac. I will give you the land that you are lying on now. I will give this land to you and to your children.

Then Jacob woke up and said, “I know that the LORD is in this place, but I did not know he was here until I slept.”

Then Jacob made a promise. He said, “If God will be with me, and if he will protect me on this trip, and if he gives me food to eat and clothes to wear, and if I return in peace to my father’s house—if he does all these things—then the LORD will be my God. I am setting this stone up as a memorial stone. It will show that this is a holy place for God, and I will give God one-tenth of all he gives me.”

You will have as many descendants as there are particles of dust on the earth. They will spread east and west, north and south. All the families on earth will be blessed because of you and your descendants.

The name of that place was Luz, but Jacob named it Bethel.