17He was afraid, and said, |How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven.|


In Context

14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.|

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

17 He was afraid, and said, |How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven.|

18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Genesis 28:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:17And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this [is] the gate of heaven.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

28:17He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:17And trembling he said: How terrible is this place! this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:17And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:17And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:17And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:17And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is no other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:17and he feareth, and saith, 'How fearful is this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:17And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.