“And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;”
There above it stood the LORD, and he said: I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. The God who stands at the top of the stairway is the covenantal God — identified by the names of the patriarchs, speaking the covenant promises. The land on which Jacob is lying — a stony hillside in the wilderness — is the land of the covenant. The application: the covenant given to Abraham and Isaac is now given to Jacob in person. Jacob has received the covenant by deception; now he receives it by direct divine encounter.
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