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14 Your descendants are going to become like the dust of the earth and spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth[a] will be blessed through you and your descendants. 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[b] and told himself,[c] “Surely, the Lord is in this place and I never knew it!”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:14 Or land
  2. Genesis 28:16 Lit. woke from his sleep
  3. Genesis 28:16 The Heb. lacks to himself