Study it in the app“Look, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land, for I will not abandon you until I have done what I have spoken to you.””
Look,וְהִנֵּהIאָנֹכִיam with youעִמָּךְand will keep youוּשְׁמַרְתִּיךָwhereverבְּכֹל אֲשֶׁרyou go,תֵּלֵךְand I will bring you backוַהֲשִׁבֹתִיךָto thisהַזֹּאתland,אֶל הָאֲדָמָהforכִּיI will not abandon youלֹא אֶעֱזָבְךָuntilעַד אֲשֶׁר אִםI have doneעָשִׂיתִיwhatאֵת אֲשֶׁרI have spokenדִּבַּרְתִּיto you.”לָךְ
guard
To watch over, protect from all harm.
Where else “shemarti” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “telech” appearsbring back
To return something, restore.
Where else “hashivoti” appearsland
A territory with its inhabitants, or the whole surface of the world.
Where else “adama” appearsforsake
To turn one's back on YHWH, someone or a place.
Where else “eezav” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asiti” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “dibarti” appears14Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the ground will be blessed in you and in your offspring.
15 · This verse (above)
16Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely YHWH is in this place, and I did not know it.”
1. What it says
What did Jacob dream at Bethel, and what did YHWH say to him (vv. 12-15)?
2. What it means
What does it mean that Elohim tells Jacob, “I am with you and will keep you,” in his flight (v. 15)?
3. How I live it
In what difficult place in your life do you need to remember that Elohim is with you?
