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Genesis 35:14 KJV
Genesis · chapter 35 · verse 14
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.Genesis 35:14 · King James Version
Genesis 35:14 in context
12And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
13And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
16And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- offeringneçeka libationH5262 →
- pillarmatstsêbâhsomething stationedH4676 →
- talkeddâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- pillarmatstsebethsomething stationaryH4678 →
- pourednâçakto pour out, especially a libation, or to castH5258 →
- pouredyâtsaqproperly, to pour outH3332 →
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Jacob and his retinue having safely arrived at Bethel, we are here told what passed there. I. There he built an altar (Gen 35:7), and no doubt offered sacrifice upon it, perhaps the tenth of his cattle, according to his vow, I will give the tenth unto thee.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-15