28:16 Then Jacob woke up 1 and thought, 2 “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!” 28:17 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!”
28:18 Early 3 in the morning Jacob 4 took the stone he had placed near his head 5 and set it up as a sacred stone. 6 Then he poured oil on top of it. 28:19 He called that place Bethel, 7 although the former name of the town was Luz.
1 tn Heb “woke up from his sleep.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Heb “said.”
3 tn Heb “and he got up early…and he took.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn See the note on this phrase in v. 11.
6 tn Heb “standing stone.”
5 tn The name Bethel means “house of God” in Hebrew (see v. 17).