Genesis 28:22
then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that You give to me—tithing I tithe to You.”
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In Context
21when I have turned back in peace to the house of my father, and YHWH has become my God,
Cross References
Genesis 14:20and blessed [is] God Most High, who has delivered your adversaries into your hand”; and he gives to him a tenth of all.
Genesis 28:17and he fears and says, “How fearful [is] this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.”
Genesis 35:1And God says to Jacob, “Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you in your fleeing from the face of your brother Esau.”
Genesis 35:14And Jacob sets up a standing pillar in the place where He has spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he pours on it an oblation, and he pours on it oil;
Genesis 47:26and Joseph sets it for a statute to this day, concerning the ground of Egypt, [that] Pharaoh has a fifth; only the ground of the priests alone has not become Pharaoh’s.
Leviticus 27:32And all the tithe of the herd and of the flock—all that passes by under the rod—the tenth is holy to YHWH;
Matthew Henry on Genesis 28:17-22
Jacob's Vow. ( b. c. 1760.) 16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the… Read the whole commentary →