Genesis 46:1
And Israel departed, he and all that he had, and came to the well of the oath; and he offered sacrifice to the God of his father Isaac.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2And God spoke to Israel in a night vision, saying, Jacob, Jacob; and he said, What is it?
Cross References
Genesis 8:20And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt-offering upon the altar.
Genesis 21:14And Abraam rose up in the morning and took loaves and a skin of water, and gave them to Agar, and he put the child on her shoulder, and sent her away, and she having departed wandered in the wilderness + 21:14 Or, near Beersheba.near the well of the oath.
Genesis 21:33And Abraam planted a field at the well of the oath, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
Genesis 26:22And he departed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.
Genesis 28:13And the Lord + 28:13 Gr. was established.stood upon it, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraam, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
Genesis 31:53The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 46:1
Jacob is here removing to Egypt in his old age, forced thither by a famine, and invited thither by a son. Here, I. God sends him thither, ver. 1-4 . II. All his family goes with him, ver. 5-27 . III. Joseph bids him welcome, ver. 28-34 . Read the whole commentary →