Genesis 28:17 - Plain English Version

¹⁷ So Jacob got frightened. He said, “This place frightens me. I know for sure that God lives here. This place joins up with heaven.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ He was afraid and said, How to be feared and reverenced is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gateway to heaven!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ He was terrified and thought, This sacred place is awesome. It’s none other than God’s house and the entrance to heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And being terrified, he said: "How terrible this place is! This is nothing other than the house of God and the gateway of heaven."

Genesis 28:17 Referencias Cruzadas

1 Timothy 3:15

so that you will know the way we have to do things in the church. You know, we are God’s family, and his family is his church. God is always alive, and the people in his church always have to keep on teaching his true word. You know how a house is held up by the big posts that are set in concrete. Well, we people in God’s church, we are like those posts. We are holding up God’s true word, so we have to teach it properly.

Luke 2:9

Suddenly, an angel messenger from God stood there with them, and bright light from God was shining all around them, and they were very frightened.

1 Peter 4:17

It is time now for God to start judging everybody. He will be good to some people, and he will give trouble to other people. He will judge his own people first. They might get some trouble now, but it will not last for ever. But later, he will judge the people that didn’t want to listen to his good story. He will be really hard on them, he will give them lots of trouble.

Genesis 28:18

Early the next morning, Jacob picked up the stone that was at his head, and he stood it up and poured olive oil on top of it. Jacob did those things to show that God was in that place, and that place was special.