Genesis 28:12
Good News Translation
He dreamed that he saw a stairway reaching from earth to heaven, with angels going up and coming down on it.

New Revised Standard Version
And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Contemporary English Version
In a dream he saw a ladder that reached from earth to heaven, and God's angels were going up and down on it.

New American Bible
Then he had a dream: a stairway rested on the ground, with its top reaching to the heavens; and God’s angels were going up and down on it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.

he dreamed.

Genesis 15:1,12 Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great. . . .

Genesis 20:3,6,7 And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband. . . .

Genesis 37:5-11 Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more. . . .

Genesis 40:1-41:57 After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord. . . .

Numbers 12:6 He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.

Job 4:12-21 Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper. . . .

Job 33:15,16 By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds: . . .

Daniel 2:1-49 In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind. . . .

Daniel 4:1-37 I, Nabuchodonosor, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace: . . .

Daniel 7:1 In the first year of Baltasar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream: and the vision of his head was upon his bed: and writing the dream, he comprehended it in a few words: and relating the sum of it in short, he said:

Matthew 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.

Matthew 2:12,13,19 And having received an answer in sleep that they should not return to Herod, they went back another way into their country. . . .

Hebrews 1:1 God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,

ladder.

Genesis 32:1,2 Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God met him. . . .

2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord behold all the earth, and give strength to those who with a perfect heart trust in him. Wherefore thou hast done foolishly, and for this cause from this time wars shall arise against thee.

Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.

John 1:51 And he saith to him: Amen, amen, I say to you, you shall see the heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

2 Timothy 4:16,17 At my first answer, no man stood with me: but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their charge! . . .

Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?

Context
Jacob's Ladder
11And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place. 12And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.13And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.…
Cross References
John 1:51
And he saith to him: Amen, amen, I say to you, you shall see the heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

Genesis 37:5
Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.

Genesis 41:1
After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,

Numbers 12:6
He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.

1 Kings 19:5
And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat.

Genesis 28:11
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