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 pened that  night  overtook  him  in  an  open  plain. Being tired from the  journey,  he  lay  down  on  the  ground  and  slept,  having a stone for  a pillow. In his  sleep  he  saw  a ladder  standing  upon the earth,  the  top  touching  heaven; and  by  it  the  angels  of  God ascended and  descended. The Lord  was  leaning  upon  the  ladder



and said  to  him:  “I  am  the  Lord  God  of  Abraham,  thy  father, and the  God  of  Isaac. The land  wherein  thou  sleepest  I will give to  thee  and  to  thy  seed. And thy  seed  shall  be  as  the  dust of the  earth; and  in  thee  and  thy  seed  all  the  tribes  of  the  earth shall be  blessed.”