Genesis 28:18
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.
KJV
Surgens ergo Jacob mane, tulit lapidem quem supposuerat capiti suo, et erexit in titulum, fundens oleum desuper.
Vulgate
καὶ ἀνέστη Ἰακὼβ τὸ πρωί, καὶ ἔλαβεν τὸν λίθον ὃν ἔθηκεν ἐκεῖ πρὸς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτὸν στήλην, καὶ ἐπέχεεν ἔλαιον ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον αὐτῆς
LXX
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
ASV
וַ/יַּשְׁכֵּ֨ם יַעֲקֹ֜ב בַּ/בֹּ֗קֶר וַ/יִּקַּ֤ח אֶת הָ/אֶ֨בֶן֙ אֲשֶׁר שָׂ֣ם מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֔י/ו וַ/יָּ֥שֶׂם אֹתָ֖/הּ מַצֵּבָ֑ה וַ/יִּצֹ֥ק שֶׁ֖מֶן עַל רֹאשָֽׁ/הּ
Hebrew
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6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2573God renews his promise to Jacob, the ancestor of the twelve tribes of Israel.17 Before confronting his elder brother Esau, Jacob wrestles all night with a mysterious figure who refuses to reveal his name, but he blesses him before leaving him at dawn. From this account, the spiritual tradition of the Church has retained the symbol of prayer as a battle of faith and as the trium…
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth. Jacob's vision of the ladder reaching from earth to heaven is a representation of Christ as the Mediator, through whom alone there is intercourse between God and men. The angels ascending and descending signify the ministry of divine providence. The promise that in Jacob's seed all families of the earth would be blessed i…
Cross-references
- 1Sam 7:12 — Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
- 1Sam 7:12 — Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
- 2Sam 18:18 — Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own
- Eccl 9:10 — Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
- Exod 24:4 — And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Gen 22:3 — And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the plac
- Gen 28:11 — And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
- Gen 31:13 — I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
- Gen 31:45 — And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
- Gen 31:45 — And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
- Gen 35:14 — And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
- Gen 35:14 — And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
- Gen 35:20 — And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.
- Isa 19:19 — In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
- Isa 19:19 — In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
- Josh 24:26 — And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
- Lev 8:10 — And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
- Num 7:1 — And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had
- Ps 119:60 — I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.