20-22 Jacob vowed a vow: “If God stands by me and protects me on this journey on which I’m setting out, keeps me in food and clothing, and brings me back in one piece to my father’s house, this God will be my God. This stone that I have set up as a memorial pillar will mark this as a place where God lives. And everything you give me, I’ll return a tenth to you.”

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21 so that I return safely(A) to my father’s household,(B) then the Lord[a] will be my God(C) 22 and[b] this stone that I have set up as a pillar(D) will be God’s house,(E) and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:21 Or Since God … father’s household, the Lord
  2. Genesis 28:22 Or household, and the Lord will be my God, 22 then