Jacob’s Journey to Egypt(A)

46 So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to (B)Beersheba, and offered sacrifices (C)to the God of his father Isaac.

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42 (A)Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and (B)the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. (C)God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and (D)rebuked you last night.”

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13 (A)And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: (B)“I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; (C)the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.

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Jacob’s Vow at Bethel

10 Now Jacob (A)went out from Beersheba and went toward (B)Haran.

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22 And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name [a]Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall (A)be fruitful in the land.”

23 Then he went up from there to Beersheba. 24 And the Lord (B)appeared to him the same night and said, (C)“I am the God of your father Abraham; (D)do not fear, for (E)I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham’s sake.” 25 So he (F)built an altar there and (G)called on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 26:22 Lit. Spaciousness

33 Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and (A)there called on the name of the Lord, (B)the Everlasting God.

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31 Therefore he (A)called that place [a]Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

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  1. Genesis 21:31 Lit. Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven

14 So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and [a]a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and (A)sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

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  1. Genesis 21:14 A water bottle made of skins

Now therefore, take for yourselves (A)seven bulls and seven rams, (B)go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall (C)pray for you. For I will accept [a]him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

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  1. Job 42:8 Lit. his face

So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and [a]sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning (A)and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and (B)cursed[b] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.

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  1. Job 1:5 consecrate
  2. Job 1:5 Lit. blessed, but in an evil sense; cf. Job 1:11; 2:5, 9

20 And all Israel (A)from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been [a]established as a prophet of the Lord.

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  1. 1 Samuel 3:20 confirmed

And he (A)built an altar there and called the place [a]El Bethel, because (B)there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

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  1. Genesis 35:7 Lit. God of the House of God

Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, (A)who answered me in the day of my distress (B)and has been with me in the way which I have gone.”

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20 Then he erected an altar there and called it (A)El[a] Elohe Israel.

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  1. Genesis 33:20 Lit. God, the God of Israel

53 The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their father (A)judge between us.” And Jacob (B)swore by (C)the [a]Fear of his father Isaac.

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  1. Genesis 31:53 A reference to God

13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

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And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and (A)called on the name of the Lord.

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God’s Covenant with Creation

20 Then Noah built an (A)altar to the Lord, and took of (B)every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered (C)burnt offerings on the altar.

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Abel also brought of (A)the firstborn of his flock and of (B)their fat. And the Lord (C)respected Abel and his offering,

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