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15 Now pay attention! I’m here with you, and I’m going to be watching over you wherever you go. I’m going to bring you back to this land, because I won’t ever leave you until I’ve accomplished what I’ve promised about you.”

Jacob Worships God in Bethel

16 Then Jacob woke up during the night[a] and told himself,[b] “Surely, the Lord is in this place and I never knew it!” 17 In mounting terror, he cried out, “How scary this place is! This is nothing less than God’s house and the gateway to heaven!”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:16 Lit. woke from his sleep
  2. Genesis 28:16 The Heb. lacks to himself