14. Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.
15. I am with you and will protect you everywhere you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
16. Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not know it.”
17. He was afraid and said, “This place frightens me! It is surely the house of God and the gate of heaven.”