Genesis 48:3
And when Joseph was come in to him, he said : God Almighty appeared to me at Lute, which is in the land of Chanaan: and he blessed me,
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 17:6And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
Genesis 28:12And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it;
Genesis 28:19And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.
Genesis 35:9And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,
Judges 1:23For when they were besieging the city, which before was called Luza,
Revelation 21:11Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone, even as crystal.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 48:2-8
Jacob's Last Illness. ( b. c. 1689.) 1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a… Read the whole commentary →