Genesis 28:20
Good News Translation
Then Jacob made a vow to the LORD: "If you will be with me and protect me on the journey I am making and give me food and clothing,

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

Contemporary English Version
Jacob solemnly promised God, "If you go with me and watch over me as I travel, and if you give me food and clothes

New American Bible
Jacob then made this vow: “If God will be with me and protect me on this journey I am making and give me food to eat and clothes to wear,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

vowed.

Genesis 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

Leviticus 27:1-34 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Numbers 6:1-20 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Numbers 21:2,3 But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver thus people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities. . . .

Judges 11:30,31 He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands, . . .

1 Samuel 1:11,28 And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look down, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head. . . .

1 Samuel 14:24 And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.

2 Samuel 15:8 For thy servant made a vow, when he was in Gessur of Syria, saying: If the Lord shall bring me again into Jerusalem, I will offer sacrifice to the Lord.

Nehemiah 9:1-10:39 And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of Israel came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon them. . . .

Psalm 22:25 With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.

Psalm 56:12 In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to thee:

Psalm 61:5,8 For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name. . . .

Psalm 66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

Psalm 76:11 Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round about him bring presents. To him that is terrible,

Psalm 116:14,18 I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people: . . .

Psalm 119:106 I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy justice.

Psalm 132:2 How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob:

Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do. . . .

Isaiah 19:21 And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall worship him with sacrifices and offerings: and they shall make vows to the Lord, and perform them.

John 1:16 And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.

Acts 18:18 But Paul, when he had stayed yet many days, taking his leave of the brethren, sailed thence into Syria (and with him Priscilla and Aquila), having shorn his head in Cenchrae. For he had a vow.

Acts 23:12-15 And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they killed Paul. . . .

If God.

Genesis 28:15 And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.

will give.

1 Timothy 6:8 But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content.

Context
The Stone of Bethel
19And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza. 20And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,21And I shall return prosperously to my father's house: the Lord shall be my God:…
Cross References
1 Timothy 6:8
But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content.

Genesis 28:15
And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.

Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

Genesis 35:3
Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey.

Numbers 21:2
But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver thus people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.

Judges 11:30
He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

2 Samuel 15:8
For thy servant made a vow, when he was in Gessur of Syria, saying: If the Lord shall bring me again into Jerusalem, I will offer sacrifice to the Lord.

Genesis 28:19
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