Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.’”
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- Gen 31:3 : 3 The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”
- Gen 32:9 : 9 Then Jacob prayed,“O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me,‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’
- Gen 28:12-22 : 12 and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it 13 and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants. 15 I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!” 16 Then Jacob woke up and thought,“Surely the LORD is in this place, but I did not realize it!” 17 He was afraid and said,“What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!” 18 Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it. 19 He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz. 20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying,“If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear, 21 and I return safely to my father’s home, then the LORD will become my God. 22 Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”
- Gen 35:7 : 7 He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
Similar Verses (AI)
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1 The Return to Bethel Then God said to Jacob,“Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
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3 The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”
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9 Then Jacob prayed,“O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me,‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’
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3 Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”
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13 and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.
- Gen 28:2-32 verses77%
2 Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3 May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.
- Gen 31:11-122 verses76%
11 In the dream the angel of God said to me,‘Jacob!’‘Here I am!’ I replied.
12 Then he said,‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.
- Gen 31:29-302 verses76%
29 I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night,‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’
30 Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”
- Gen 35:13-153 verses76%
13 Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.
14 So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.
15 Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.
- Gen 28:15-162 verses75%
15 I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”
16 Then Jacob woke up and thought,“Surely the LORD is in this place, but I did not realize it!”
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1 The Obedience of Abram Now the LORD said to Abram,“Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.
- Gen 46:2-32 verses75%
2 God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said,“Jacob, Jacob!” He replied,“Here I am!”
3 He said,“I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
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14 Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?
- Gen 26:2-32 verses75%
2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said,“Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.
3 Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.
- Gen 28:18-214 verses74%
18 Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it.
19 He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.
20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying,“If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,
21 and I return safely to my father’s home, then the LORD will become my God.
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7 He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
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3 and said to him,‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’
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42 If the God of my father– the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears– had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”
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3 And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.
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8 Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped the LORD.
- Gen 35:9-113 verses73%
9 God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.
10 God said to him,“Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.
11 Then God said to him,“I am the Sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation– even a company of nations– will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!
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25 The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.
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5 There he said to them,“I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
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53 May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared.
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43 Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.
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7 “The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath,‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.
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44 So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”
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30 Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”