16. When Jacob woke from his sleep, he thought to himself, The Lord is definitely in this place, but I didn’t know it.
17. He was terrified and thought, This sacred place is awesome. It’s none other than God’s house and the entrance to heaven.
18. After Jacob got up early in the morning, he took the stone that he had put near his head, set it up as a sacred pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
19. He named that sacred place Bethel, though Luz was the city’s original name.
20. Jacob made a solemn promise: "If God is with me and protects me on this trip I’m taking, and gives me bread to eat and clothes to wear,
21. and I return safely to my father’s household, then the Lord will be my God.
22. This stone that I’ve set up as a sacred pillar will be God’s house, and of everything you give me I will give a tenth back to you."