01:028:016 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the
LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
01:028:017 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place!
this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of
heaven.
01:028:018 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone
that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured
oil upon the top of it.
01:028:019 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of
that city was called Luz at the first.
01:028:020 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and
will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and
raiment to put on,
01:028:021 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then
shall the LORD be my God:
01:028:022 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be
God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the
tenth unto thee.
01:029:001 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of
the people of the east.
01:029:002 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo,
there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they
watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
01:029:003 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled
the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the
stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
01:029:004 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And
they said, Of Haran are we.
01:029:005 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And
they said, We know him.
01:029:006 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is
well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
01:029:007 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that
the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and
feed them.
01:029:008 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we
water the sheep.
01:029:009 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep; for she kept them.
01:029:010 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of
Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's
brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's
mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
01:029:011 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
01:029:012 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and
that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.
01:029:013 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob
his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed
him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
01:029:014 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.
And he abode with him the space of a month.
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