Genesis 28:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that I come again to my father's house in peace, then I will take the Lord to be my God,

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  • Deut 26:17 : 17 Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice:
  • Judg 11:31 : 31 Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the children of Ammon, will be the Lord's and I will give him as a burned offering.
  • 2 Sam 15:8 : 8 For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.
  • 2 Sam 19:24 : 24 And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son, came down for the purpose of meeting the king; his feet had not been cared for or his hair cut or his clothing washed from the day when the king went away till the day when he came back in peace.
  • 2 Sam 19:30 : 30 And Mephibosheth said, Let him take it all, now that my lord the king has come back to his house in peace!
  • 2 Kgs 5:17 : 17 Then Naaman said, If you will not, then let there be given to your servant as much earth as two beasts are able to take on their backs; because from now on, your servant will make no offering or burned offering to other gods, but only to the Lord.
  • Exod 15:2 : 2 The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.

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  • 20 Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on,

  • 9 Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

  • 3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

  • 22 And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.

  • Gen 30:29-31
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    29 Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.

    30 For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

    31 And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me:

  • 13 I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

  • Gen 28:15-17
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    15 And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

    16 And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it.

    17 And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven.

  • 3 And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

  • 5 And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me

  • 1 And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.

  • 42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

  • 53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.

  • 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

  • 9 Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,

  • Gen 24:40-42
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    40 And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;

    41 And you will be free from your oath to me when you come to my people; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from your oath.

    42 And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,

  • 30 And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

  • 20 And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.

  • 3 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

  • 13 And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

  • 27 And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.

  • 5 My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

  • 34 For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

  • 7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

  • 13 Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.

  • 5 Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.

  • 10 And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

  • 30 And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.

  • 11 Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you.

  • 1 And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

  • 32 For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

  • 8 For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.

  • 21 The rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the Strong God.

  • 44 Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.

  • 45 Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God.