Genesis Chapter 28 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 28:16

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely Jehovah is in this place. And I knew it not.
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BBE Genesis 28:16

And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it.
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DARBY Genesis 28:16

And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and said, Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew [it] not.
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KJV Genesis 28:16

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
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WBT Genesis 28:16

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
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WEB Genesis 28:16

Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."
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YLT Genesis 28:16

And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep (during which he had seen and talked with Jehovah), and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. Jacob does not here learn the doctrine of the Divine omnipresence for the first time (Knobel), but now discovers that the covenant God of Abraham revealed himself at other than consecrated places (Rosenmüller, Keil, Lange, Murphy); or perhaps simply gives expression to his astonishment at finding that whereas he fancied himself alone, he was in reality in the company of God - so plus adeptum ease quam sperare ausus fuisset (Calvin).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) Surely the Lord (Jehovah) is in this place.--Jacob was not unaware of the omnipresence of the Deity: what astonished him was that Jehovah should thus reveal Himself far away from the shrines where He was worshipped. Rebekah had gone to one of these to inquire of Jehovah (Genesis 25:22), and probably to a shrine in the very neighbourhood of the place where Jacob was sleeping (Genesis 12:8). But first Abraham, and then Isaac, had for so long made Beer-sheba their home, that Jacob probably knew little about the sanctity of the spot, and felt himself far away from all the religious associations of his youth, and from that "presence of Jehovah" which in antediluvian times had also been supposed to be confined to certain localities (Genesis 4:16). But one great object of the dream was to show that Jehovah watches over the whole earth, and that messengers to and fro come from Him and return unto Him.