Bible Strands
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up, leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Jacob during his clandestine departure from Laban’s household, issuing a direct command immediately after revealing His observation of Laban’s treatment of Jacob.
The words — The text highlights מַצֵּבָ֔ה (ma.tze.Vah), literally “a pillar,” and אֲשֶׁ֨ר ('a.Sher), meaning “where,” to anchor the command to the precise site of Jacob’s prior vow.
The thread — This recall mirrors the initial instruction in Genesis 31:3 and resonates with Jacob’s later invocation of the God of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 32:9, while the Bethel reference points to the ladder dream and angelic presence recorded in Genesis 28:12.
Why it lands — The verse requires immediate compliance to a divine summons, treating a past vow as the legal and spiritual basis for leaving a hostile environment rather than as a sentimental memory.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
I am the God of Beth–el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
Cross-references
- Genesis 31:3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
- Genesis 32:9 Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
- Genesis 28:12 And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
- Genesis 35:7 There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.