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θεός G2316

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God

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God

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Capitalised for the God of Israel (9); the Masoretic version's "Elohim" does not carry over. Lowercase "god, gods" where the Greek speaks of other gods

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9, 52

Occurrences (180)

Genesis 1 (Septuagint)

• 1:1 In beginning God made the sky and the land.
• 1:2 Now the land was unseen and unfurnished, and darkness was above the Abyss; and a wind of God was borne above the water.
• 1:3 And God said, "Let light come to be," and light came to be.
• 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was beautiful; and God parted between the light and between the darkness.
• 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was beautiful; and God parted between the light and between the darkness.
• 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And evening came to be, and morning came to be: day one.
• 1:6 And God said, "Let a firmament come to be in the middle of the water, and let it be parting between water and water." And it came to be thus.
• 1:7 And God made the firmament, and God parted between the water that was under the firmament and between the water that was above the firmament.
• 1:7 And God made the firmament, and God parted between the water that was under the firmament and between the water that was above the firmament.
• 1:8 And God called the firmament Sky. And God saw that it was beautiful. And evening came to be, and morning came to be: a second day.
• 1:8 And God called the firmament Sky. And God saw that it was beautiful. And evening came to be, and morning came to be: a second day.
• 1:9 And God said, "Let the water that is under the sky be gathered into one gathering, and let the dry be seen." And it came to be thus. And the water that is under the sky was gathered into their gatherings, and the dry was seen.
• 1:10 And God called the dry Land, and the masses of the waters he called Seas. And God saw that it was beautiful.
• 1:10 And God called the dry Land, and the masses of the waters he called Seas. And God saw that it was beautiful.
• 1:11 And God said, "Let the land sprout herbage of grass, sowing seed after kind and after resemblance, and fruit-bearing wood making fruit, whose seed is in it after kind for resemblance, on the land." And it came to be thus.
• 1:12 And the land brought forth herbage of grass, sowing seed after kind and after resemblance, and fruit-bearing wood making fruit, whose seed is in it after kind on the land. And God saw that it was beautiful.
• 1:14 And God said, "Let light-givers come to be in the firmament of the sky for shining on the land, and to rule the day and the night, and to part between the day and between the night; and let them be for signs and for kairoi and for days and for twelvemonths;
• 1:16 And God made the two great light-givers—the great light-giver for the rule of the day, and the lesser light-giver for the rule of the night—and the stars.
• 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the sky, so as to shine on the land,
• 1:18 and to rule the day and the night, and to part between the light and between the darkness. And God saw that it was beautiful.
• 1:20 And God said, "Let the waters bring out creepers of living souls, and flyers flying over the land along the firmament of the sky." And it came to be thus.
• 1:21 And God made the great sea-monsters, and every soul of living things, creepers, which the waters brought out after their kinds, and every winged flyer after kind. And God saw that they were beautiful.
• 1:21 And God made the great sea-monsters, and every soul of living things, creepers, which the waters brought out after their kinds, and every winged flyer after kind. And God saw that they were beautiful.
• 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, "Grow and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the flyers multiply on the land."
• 1:24 And God said, "Let the land bring out living soul after kind: four-footed things and creepers and beasts of the land after kind." And it came to be thus.
• 1:25 And God made the beasts of the land after kind, and the cattle after kind, and all the creepers of the land after their kind. And God saw that they were beautiful.
• 1:25 And God made the beasts of the land after kind, and the cattle after kind, and all the creepers of the land after their kind. And God saw that they were beautiful.
• 1:26 And God said, "Let us make human according to our icon and according to likening; and let them rule the fish of the sea and the flyers of the sky and the cattle and all the land and all the creepers creeping on the land."
• 1:27 And God made the human; according to the icon of God he made him; male and female he made them.
• 1:27 And God made the human; according to the icon of God he made him; male and female he made them.
• 1:28 And God blessed them, saying, "Grow and multiply, and fill the land and lord it over it; and rule the fish of the sea and the flyers of the sky and all the cattle and all the land and all the creepers creeping on the land."
• 1:29 And God said, "Look, I have given to you every sowable grass sowing seed, which is upon all the land, and every wood that has in itself fruit of sowable seed: to you it will be for eating,
• 1:31 And God saw all the things, as many as he had made, and look, exceedingly beautiful. And evening came to be, and morning came to be: a sixth day.

Genesis 2 (Septuagint)

• 2:2 And God completed on the sixth day his works that he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his works that he had done.
• 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, for on it he rested from all his works that God began to make.
• 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, for on it he rested from all his works that God began to make.
• 2:4 This is the book of genesis of sky and land, when it came to be; on the day the Lord God made the sky and the land,
• 2:5 and every green of the field before it came to be on the land, and every grass of the field before it sprang up; for God had not rained on the land, and human there was not to work the land;
• 2:7 And God shaped the human, dust from the land, and breathed into his face breath of life; and the human came to be a living soul.
• 2:8 And the Lord God planted a paradise in Eden toward the east, and set there the human whom he had shaped.
• 2:9 And God made spring forth further from the land every wood lovely for sight and beautiful for eating, and the wood of life in the middle of the paradise, and the wood of knowing what is known of beautiful and evil.
• 2:15 And the Lord God took the human whom he had shaped and set him in the paradise, to work it and to guard.
• 2:16 And the Lord God commanded Adam, saying, "From every wood that is in the paradise by eating you shall eat;
• 2:18 And the Lord God said, "It is not beautiful for the human to be alone; let us make for him a helper corresponding to him."
• 2:19 And God shaped further from the land all the beasts of the field and all the flyers of the sky, and led them to Adam to see what he would call them; and everything, whatever Adam called it, a living soul, this was its name.
• 2:21 And God cast a trance on Adam, and he went to sleep; and he took one of his sides and filled up flesh in its place.
• 2:22 And the Lord God built the side, which he had taken from Adam, into a woman; and led her to Adam.

Genesis 3 (Septuagint)

• 3:1 And the two were naked, both Adam and his woman, and they were not ashamed. Now the serpent was most prudent of all the beasts that are on the land, which the Lord God had made; and the serpent said to the woman, "Why is it that God said, 'You shall not eat from every wood of the paradise'?"
• 3:1 And the two were naked, both Adam and his woman, and they were not ashamed. Now the serpent was most prudent of all the beasts that are on the land, which the Lord God had made; and the serpent said to the woman, "Why is it that God said, 'You shall not eat from every wood of the paradise'?"
• 3:3 but from the fruit of the wood that is in the middle of the paradise, God said, 'You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die.'"
• 3:5 for God knew that on whatever day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened up, and you will be like gods, coming to know beautiful and evil."
• 3:5 for God knew that on whatever day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened up, and you will be like gods, coming to know beautiful and evil."
• 3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the paradise in the afternoon; and both Adam and his woman hid from the face of the Lord God in the middle of the wood of the paradise.
• 3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the paradise in the afternoon; and both Adam and his woman hid from the face of the Lord God in the middle of the wood of the paradise.
• 3:9 And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, "Adam, where are you?"
• 3:13 And the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
• 3:14 And the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, accursed are you from all the cattle and from all the beasts of the land; on your breast and belly you shall go, and land you shall eat all the days of your life.
• 3:21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his woman tunics of skin, and clothed them.
• 3:22 And the Lord God said, "Look, Adam has come to be like one of us, to come to know beautiful and evil; and now, lest he stretch out the hand and take from the wood of life and eat, and he shall live to the age."
• 3:23 And the Lord God sent him out from the paradise of delight, to work the land from which he was taken.

Genesis 4 (Septuagint)

• 4:1 Now Adam came to know Eve his woman, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, "I have acquired a man through God."
• 4:4 and Abel brought, he too, from the firstborn of his sheep and from their fats. And God looked upon Abel and upon his gifts;
• 4:6 And the Lord God said to Cain, "Why have you come to be deeply grieved, and why has your face collapsed?
• 4:9 And God said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" But he said, "I do not come to know; am I my brother's guard?"
• 4:10 And God said, "What have you done? The voice of the blood of your brother shouts to me from the land.
• 4:15 And the Lord God said to him, "Not thus! Everyone who has killed Cain shall loosen seven things avenged." And the Lord God set a sign for Cain, so as not—everyone finding him—to do away with him.
• 4:15 And the Lord God said to him, "Not thus! Everyone who has killed Cain shall loosen seven things avenged." And the Lord God set a sign for Cain, so as not—everyone finding him—to do away with him.
• 4:16 Now Cain went out from the face of God, and dwelt in the land of Nod, opposite Eden.
• 4:25 Now Adam came to know Eve his woman, and having conceived she bore a son. And she named his name Seth, saying, "For God has raised up for me a different seed in place of Abel, whom Cain killed."
• 4:26 And to Seth there came to be a son; now he named his name Enosh. This one hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.

Genesis 5 (Septuagint)

• 5:1 This is the book of genesis of humans. On the day God made Adam, according to the icon of God he made him;
• 5:1 This is the book of genesis of humans. On the day God made Adam, according to the icon of God he made him;
• 5:22 Now Enoch was well-pleasing to God, after he begot Methuselah, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
• 5:24 And Enoch was well-pleasing to God; and he was not found, because God transferred him.
• 5:24 And Enoch was well-pleasing to God; and he was not found, because God transferred him.
• 5:29 And he named his name Noah, saying, "This one shall give respite to us from our works and from the griefs of our hands and from the land which the Lord God cursed."

Genesis 6 (Septuagint)

• 6:2 now the messengers of God, having seen the daughters of the humans, that they are beautiful, took for themselves women from all whom they chose.
• 6:3 And the Lord God said, "My spirit shall not stay in these humans to the age, because they are fleshes; but their days shall be a hundred twenty years."
• 6:4 Now the giants were on the land in those days, and after that, whenever the sons of God went in to the daughters of the humans, and they begot for themselves: those were the giants, the ones from the age, the humans, the renowned.
• 6:5 Now the Lord God, having seen that the badnesses of the humans were multiplied on the land, and every one ponders in his heart diligently on the evil things all the days,
• 6:6 and God took to heart that he had made the human on the land, and he pondered.
• 6:7 And God said, "I will wipe off the human whom I made from the face of the land, from human to cattle, and from creepers to the flyers of the sky; for I was enraged that I made them."
• 6:8 But Noah found grace before the Lord God.
• 6:9 Now these are the geneses of Noah. Noah: a just human, being perfect in his genesis; to God was well-pleasing Noah.
• 6:11 Now the land was corrupted before God, and the land was filled full of injustice.
• 6:12 And the Lord God saw the land, and it was ruined, for all flesh had ruined its way on the land.
• 6:13 And God said to Noah, "kairos of every human has arrived before me, for the land was filled full of injustice from them; and look, I am ruining them and the land.
• 6:22 And Noah did all things, as many as the Lord God commanded him; thus he did.

Genesis 7 (Septuagint)

• 7:1 And the Lord God said to Noah, "Enter, you and all your house, into the chest, for you I have seen just before me in this generation.
• 7:5 And Noah did all things, as many as the Lord God commanded him.
• 7:9 two two they entered to Noah into the chest, male and female, even as God commanded him.
• 7:16 And those going in, male and female from all flesh, entered, even as God commanded Noah; and the Lord God shut the chest from outside him.
• 7:16 And those going in, male and female from all flesh, entered, even as God commanded Noah; and the Lord God shut the chest from outside him.

Genesis 8 (Septuagint)

• 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts and all the cattle and all the flyers and all the creepers, as many as were with him in the chest; and God brought on a wind upon the land, and the water abated.
• 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts and all the cattle and all the flyers and all the creepers, as many as were with him in the chest; and God brought on a wind upon the land, and the water abated.
• 8:15 And the Lord God said to Noah, saying,
• 8:20 And Noah built an altar to God, and took from all the clean cattle and from all the clean flyers, and brought up a whole-fruit offering on the altar.
• 8:21 And the Lord God smelled an odor of fragrance, and the Lord God said, having pondered, "I will not add further to curse the land because of the works of the humans, for the understanding of the human is intent diligently on the evil things from youth; therefore I will not add further to strike all flesh living, just as I have done.
• 8:21 And the Lord God smelled an odor of fragrance, and the Lord God said, having pondered, "I will not add further to curse the land because of the works of the humans, for the understanding of the human is intent diligently on the evil things from youth; therefore I will not add further to strike all flesh living, just as I have done.

Genesis 9 (Septuagint)

• 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the land and lord it over it.
• 9:6 The one pouring out blood of a human,in return for his blood it shall be poured out;for in the icon of God I made the human.
• 9:8 And God said to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
• 9:12 And the Lord God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I am giving between me and you and between every living soul that is with you, for generations of age:
• 9:17 And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have disposed between me and between all flesh that is upon the land."
• 9:26 And he said,"Blessed the Lord, the God of Shem;and Canaan shall be his servant.
• 9:27 May God broaden for Japheth,and let him dwell in the houses of Shem;and let Canaan come to be their servant."

Genesis 10 (Septuagint)

• 10:9 This one was a giant hunter before the Lord God; because of this they shall say, "Like Nimrod, a giant hunter before the Lord."

Genesis 11 (Septuagint)

• 11:9 Because of this its name was called Confusion, for there the Lord confused the lips of all the land; and from there the Lord God dispersed them upon the face of all the land.

Genesis 12 (Septuagint)

• 12:17 And God examined Pharaoh with great and evil examinations, and his house, concerning Sarai, the woman of Abram.

Genesis 13 (Septuagint)

• 13:10 And Lot, having lifted up his eyes, saw all the region around the Jordan, that all of it was being given drink, before God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah, like the paradise of God and like the land of Egypt, until one comes into Zoar.
• 13:10 And Lot, having lifted up his eyes, saw all the region around the Jordan, that all of it was being given drink, before God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah, like the paradise of God and like the land of Egypt, until one comes into Zoar.
• 13:13 But the humans in Sodom were evil and sinners before God, very much.
• 13:14 Now God said to Abram, after Lot parted from him, "Look up with your eyes and see from the place where now you are, toward the north and the southwest and the east and the sea.

Genesis 14 (Septuagint)

• 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth loaves and wine; now he was priest of God the Most High.
• 14:19 And he blessed Abram and said, "Blessed Abram to God the Most High, who created the sky and the land;
• 14:20 and blessed God the Most High, who handed over your enemies subject to you." And he gave him a tithe from all.
• 14:22 Now Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I will stretch out my hand to God the Most High, who created the sky and the land:

Genesis 15 (Septuagint)

• 15:6 And Abram believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice.
• 15:7 Now he said to him, "I am the God who brought you out from the country of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land to inherit."
• 15:18 There God disposed to Abram a covenant, saying, "To your seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, Euphrates:

Genesis 16 (Septuagint)

• 16:5 Now Sarai said to Abram, "I am wronged by you! I have given my servant-girl into your bosom; but when she saw that she had a child in the womb, I was dishonored before her. Let God judge between me and you."
• 16:7 Now a messenger of the Lord God found her by the spring of the water in the desert, by the spring on the way to Shur.
• 16:13 And Hagar called the name of the Lord who was speaking to her, "You are the God who looked upon me"; for she said, "For even face to face I saw the one seen by me."

Genesis 17 (Septuagint)

• 17:1 Now Abram came to be of ninety nine years, and the Lord was seen by Abram and said to him, "I am your God; be well-pleasing before me, and come to be blameless.
• 17:3 And Abram fell on his face, and God spoke to him, saying,
• 17:7 And I will make stand my covenant between me and between you and between your seed after you, for their generations, for a covenant of age: to be your God, and of your seed after you.
• 17:8 And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land which you sojourn in, all the land of Canaan, for a holding of age; and I will be to them God."
• 17:9 And God said to Abraham, "But you—my covenant you shall keep, you and your seed after you, for their generations.
• 17:15 Now God said to Abraham, "Sarai your woman—her name shall not be called Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
• 17:18 Now Abraham said to God, "This Ishmael—let him live before you!"
• 17:19 Now God said to Abraham, "Yes; look, Sarah your woman shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will make stand my covenant with him for a covenant of age, and for his seed after him.
• 17:22 Now he completed speaking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
• 17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all his household-born, and all his silver-bought, and every male of the men in the house of Abraham, and circumcised their foreskins in the kairos of that day, even as God had spoken with him.

Genesis 18 (Septuagint)

• 18:1 Now God was seen by him at the oak of Mamre, as he was sitting at the door of his tent at noon.
• 18:14 Is a word impossible with God? At this kairos I will come back to you, into hours, and there shall be to Sarah a son."

Genesis 19 (Septuagint)

• 19:29 And it came to be, when the Lord rubbed out all the cities of the surrounding country, that God remembered Abraham, and sent out Lot from the middle of the overturning, when the Lord overturned the cities in which Lot was dwelling.

Genesis 20 (Septuagint)

• 20:3 And God entered to Abimelech in sleep in the night, and said to him, "Look, you are dying because of the woman whom you have taken; but she is cohabiting with a man."
• 20:6 Now God said to him in sleep, "I too came to know that in a clean heart you did this, and I spared you, so that you should not sin against me; on account of this I did not let you touch her.
• 20:13 Now it came to be, at the time when God brought me out from the house of my father, and I said to her, 'This justice do on me: to every place wherever we enter there, say of me that "He is my brother."'"
• 20:17 Now Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his woman, and his servant-girls, and they bore;
• 20:17 Now Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his woman, and his servant-girls, and they bore;

Genesis 21 (Septuagint)

• 21:4 Now Abraham circumcised Isaac on the eighth day, even as God had commanded him.
• 21:12 But God said to Abraham, "Let the word not be hard before you concerning the little child and concerning the servant-girl; all things, as many as Sarah says to you, hear her voice; for in Isaac shall seed be called for you.
• 21:17 Now God hearkened to the voice of the little child from the place where he was, and a messenger of God called Hagar from the sky and said to her, "What is it, Hagar? Do not fear; for God has listened to the voice of your little child from the place where he is.
• 21:17 Now God hearkened to the voice of the little child from the place where he was, and a messenger of God called Hagar from the sky and said to her, "What is it, Hagar? Do not fear; for God has listened to the voice of your little child from the place where he is.
• 21:17 Now God hearkened to the voice of the little child from the place where he was, and a messenger of God called Hagar from the sky and said to her, "What is it, Hagar? Do not fear; for God has listened to the voice of your little child from the place where he is.
• 21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of living water; and she went and filled the wineskin full with water, and gave drink to the little child.
• 21:20 And God was with the little child, and he grew, and he dwelt in the desert; now he came to be an archer.
• 21:22 Now it came to be at that kairos, and Abimelech and Ahuzzath his groomsman and Phicol, the commander-in-chief of his power, said to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all things, whatever you do.
• 21:23 Now therefore, swear to me by God not to wrong me, nor my seed, nor my name; but according to the justice that I have done with you, you shall do with me, and with the land in which you have sojourned."
• 21:33 And Abraham planted a plowland at the Well of the Oath, and called on there the name of the Lord, God of age.

Genesis 22 (Septuagint)

• 22:1 And it came to be after these words, God was testing Abraham. And he said to him, "Abraham, Abraham!" Now he said, "Here I am."
• 22:3 Now Abraham, having risen in the morning, saddled his donkey; now he took along with him two servants, and Isaac his son; and having split wood for a whole-fruit offering, having risen, he went. And he came to the place which God had said to him, on the third day.
• 22:8 Now Abraham said, "God will see for himself a sheep for a whole-fruit offering, child." Now, having gone, both together
• 22:9 came to the place which God had said to him. And Abraham built there an altar, and laid the wood on it; and having fettered Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar above the wood.
• 22:12 And he said, "Do not cast your hand on the lad, nor do anything to him; for now I have come to know that you fear God, you, and you have not spared your son, the beloved, because of me."

Genesis 23 (Septuagint)

• 23:6 "No, lord; but hear us. A king from God you are among us. In our chosen tombs bury your dead; for no one of us will hinder his tomb from you, from burying your dead there."

Genesis 24 (Septuagint)

• 24:3 and I will adjure you by the Lord, the God of the sky and of the land, that you shall not take a woman for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites, with whom I dwell with them;
• 24:7 The Lord, the God of the sky and the God of the land, who took me from the house of my father and from the land in which I came to be, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To you I will give this land, and to your seed'—he will send his messenger before you, and you shall take a woman for my son Isaac from there.
• 24:7 The Lord, the God of the sky and the God of the land, who took me from the house of my father and from the land in which I came to be, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To you I will give this land, and to your seed'—he will send his messenger before you, and you shall take a woman for my son Isaac from there.
• 24:12 And he said, "Lord, the God of my lord Abraham, prosper before me today, and do mercy with my lord Abraham.
• 24:27 "Blessed the Lord, the God of my lord Abraham, who has not forsaken justice and truth from my lord! Me the Lord has prospered to the house of the brother of my lord."
• 24:40 And he said to me, 'The Lord God, to whom I have been well-pleasing before him, he will send out his messenger with you, and will prosper your way, and you shall take a woman for my son from my tribe and from the house of my father.
• 24:42 And having come today to the spring, I said, 'Lord, the God of my lord Abraham, if you are prospering my way, on which I am now going—
• 24:48 And being well pleased, I bowed down to the Lord, and I blessed the Lord, the God of my lord Abraham, who prospered me in a way of truth, to take the daughter of the brother of my lord for his son.

Genesis 25 (Septuagint)

• 25:11 Now it came to be, after Abraham died, God blessed Isaac his son; and Isaac dwelt by the well of the sight.
• 25:21 Now Isaac begged the Lord concerning Rebekah his woman, for she was barren; now God listened to him, and Rebekah his woman took a child in the womb.

Genesis 26 (Septuagint)

• 26:24 And the Lord was seen by him in that night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you; and I will bless you and multiply your seed for the sake of Abraham your father."

Genesis 27 (Septuagint)

• 27:20 Now Isaac said to his son, "What is this that you found so quickly, O child?" Now he said, "What the Lord God handed over before me."
• 27:28 And may God give you from the dew of the sky from aboveand from the fatness of the land,and a multitude of wheat and wine.

Genesis 28 (Septuagint)

• 28:3 Now may my God bless you and grow you and multiply you, and you shall be gatherings of nations.
• 28:4 And may he give you the blessing of Abraham your father, to you and to your seed after you, to inherit the land of your sojourning, which God has given to Abraham."
• 28:12 And he dreamed; and look, a ladder established on the land, whose head reached into the sky; and the messengers of God were going up and going down on it.
• 28:13 Now the Lord had been established upon it, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac; do not fear. The land on which you are slumbering, to you I will give it, and to your seed.
• 28:13 Now the Lord had been established upon it, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac; do not fear. The land on which you are slumbering, to you I will give it, and to your seed.
• 28:17 And he feared, and said, "How fearful is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of the sky."
• 28:19 And Jacob called the name of that place House of God; and Oulammaus was the name of the city formerly.
• 28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If the Lord God will be with me, and will closely guard me on this way that I am going, and will give me bread to eat and a cloak to throw around me,
• 28:21 and will turn me back with salvation into the house of my father, then the Lord shall be to me for God;
• 28:22 and this stone, which I have made stand as a pillar, shall be to me a house of God; and of all that you give me, a tithe I will tithe them to you."