⁷ The Lord God of heaven, who ^(A)took me from my father’s house and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ^(B)‘To your ^[a]descendants I give this land,’ ^(C)He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

¹² Then he ^(A)dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there ^(B)the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

^13 (C)And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: ^(D)“I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; ^(E)the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. ¹⁴ Also your ^(F)descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad ^(G)to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and ^(H)in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. ¹⁵ Behold, ^(I)I am with you and will ^(J)keep^[a] you wherever you go, and will ^(K)bring you back to this land; for ^(L)I will not leave you ^(M)until I have done what I have spoken to you.”

¹⁶ Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in ^(N)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!”