Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.
I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.
When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has just come to you,” Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.
because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘the Lord’ I was not known to them.
He struggled with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God at Bethel, and there he spoke with him!
The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.
When the men of Joseph spied out Bethel (it used to be called Luz),