Genesis 28:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ 8 And Jacob, arising in the morning, took the stone, which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it.

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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 Cross References

Genesis 28:18

9 And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.

Genesis 28:22

Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.

2 Chronicles 5:14

From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my people Israel.

Psalm 68:35

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Exodus 3:5

And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works:

Exodus 3:6

And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

Matthew 17:6

4 And when he was come to the multitude, there came to him a man falling down on his knees before him, saying:

Luke 2:9

7 And seeing, they understood of the word that had been spoken to them concerning this child.

Luke 8:35

3 And there was a certain woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had bestowed all her substance on physicians, and could not be healed by any.

1 Timothy 3:15

For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Hebrews 10:21

0 For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people.

1 Peter 4:17

Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.

Revelation 1:17

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaites, which I also hate.

Judges 13:22

He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you, take her for me to wife.