General Week 14th MONDAY JULY 5, 2021
FIRST READING
“He had a dream: a ladder was set up, and angels of God were ascending and descending. The Lord said… ”
A Reading from the book of Genesis (28, 10-22a),
In those days Jacob left Bersheba and headed for Haran. He reached the place where he was going to spend the night because the sun had set. He took a stone there to put it under his head, and slept there. He had a dream: behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, its top touching the sky, and angels of God were ascending and descending. The Lord was standing near him. He said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, the God of Isaac. The earth on which you are lying, I give it to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the ground; you will spread to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; in you and in your descendants will be blessed all the families of the earth. Here I am with you; I will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this earth; because I will not abandon you until I have accomplished what I told you. Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Verily the Lord is in this place!" And I didn't know it. "He was seized with fear and said:" How dreadful this place is! It is truly the house of God, the door to heaven! Jacob got up early in the morning, took the stone he had put under his head, raised it up to make a stele, and on top he poured oil. Jacob gave the name of Bethel (that is to say: House of God) to this place which was previously called Louz. Then Jacob pronounced this vow: "If God is with me, if he keeps me on the path where I walk, if he gives me bread to eat and clothes to cover me, and if I return safe and sound to the house of my father, the Lord shall be my God. This stone which I made a stele will be the house of God. "
- Word of the Lord.
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