14. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.
15. I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”
16. Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”
17. He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”
18. Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it.
19. He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.
20. Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,
21. and I return safely to my father’s home, then the Lord will become my God.
22. Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”