The Life of Jacob and his son Joseph . rit the land of thysoJourningSy which God gave to Abra-ham. ^ You perceive that this blessing is moreextensive than the other. It promisesJacob a vast posterity; this has come topass, all Israelites being his seed. It pro-mises him the land of Canaan; this alsocame to pass, when the children of Israelcrossed over the Jordan. AND HIS SON JOSEPH. 31 Haraii was a place to the north andeast of Beersheba. In order to reach it,Jacob will have to travel through partof Canaan, a land full of wicked idola-ters; then to cross the Jordan; then togo over the sandy de
The Life of Jacob and his son Joseph . rit the land of thysoJourningSy which God gave to Abra-ham. ^ You perceive that this blessing is moreextensive than the other. It promisesJacob a vast posterity; this has come topass, all Israelites being his seed. It pro-mises him the land of Canaan; this alsocame to pass, when the children of Israelcrossed over the Jordan. AND HIS SON JOSEPH. 31 Haraii was a place to the north andeast of Beersheba. In order to reach it,Jacob will have to travel through partof Canaan, a land full of wicked idola-ters; then to cross the Jordan; then togo over the sandy deserts of upper Sy-ria; and then to cross the great Euphra-tes, into the mountains of Mesopotamia,or Padan-Aram. So Jacobset out frof-iBeersheba,and wenttoward Ha-ran. Thefirst stop-pmg place,that weknow of,was Luz. It was probably situated north-east of Beersheba, but we do not knowits exact situation. It was time for theweary traveller to rest, for the sun wasset. He had neither tent nor bed, butlay on the bare ground, and he took of. 32 LIFE OF JACOB, the stones of that place, and put themfor his pillow, and lay down to pillows indeed! But we might allbe willing to have such pillows, if wecould spend such nights. It was one ofthe most memorable nights of his life. THE VISION OF THE LADDER. And Jacob dreamed, and behold, a lad-der, the bottom on the earth, and the topin heaven; and the angels of God wereascending and descending on it. Butabove it was an awful and majestic was Jehovah, revealing himself to thesleeping exile. God thus spake: I am the Lord God of Abraham, thyfather, and the God of Isaac. I willgive to thee and thy seed the land onwhich thou art now lying. And thyseed shall be as the dust of the thou shalt spread abroad to the west,and to the east, and to the north, and tothe south. And in thee and in thy SEED SHALL ALL THE FAMILIES OF THEEARTH BE BLESSED. A AND HIS SON JOSEPH. 33 And behold, I am with thee, and willkeep thee in all p
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