¹³ I am the God of Bethel, ^(A)where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now ^(B)arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.’”

³ Then the Lord said to Jacob, ^(A)“Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”

⁹ And Jacob said, ^(A)“O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who ^(B)said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’

¹² And he ^(A)dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder^[a] set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, ^(B)the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! ¹³ And behold, ^(C)the Lord stood above it^[b] and said, ^(D)“I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. ^(E)The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. ¹⁴ Your offspring shall be like ^(F)the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and ^(G)your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. ¹⁵ Behold, ^(H)I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and ^(I)will bring you back to this land. For I will ^(J)not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” ¹⁶ Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is ^(K)in this place, and I did not know it.” ¹⁷ And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

¹⁸ So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up ^(L)for a pillar ^(M)and poured oil on the top of it. ¹⁹ He called the name of that place ^(N)Bethel,^[c] but the name of the city was Luz at the first. ²⁰ Then Jacob ^(O)made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, ^21 (P)so that I come again to my father's house in peace, ^(Q)then the Lord shall be my God, ²² and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, ^(R)shall be God's house. And ^(S)of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”

⁷ and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,^[a] because ^(A)there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.