Genesis 28:22
and this stone which I have set up as a pillar will be a house of God. And of all that you give me I will surely give a tenth to you.’
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In Context
21and if I return safe and sound to my father’s house, then the Lord will be my God,
Cross References
Genesis 14:20Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your foes into your power. Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
Genesis 28:17And he was filled with awe and said, ‘This place is the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.’
Genesis 35:1Then God said to Jacob, ‘Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.’
Genesis 35:14Jacob set up at the place where God had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and poured a drink-offering and oil on it.
Genesis 47:26So Joseph made it a law, still in force today, that Pharaoh should have a fifth; only the land of the priests did not come into the possession of Pharaoh.
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 →