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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 28: 18 And 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 upon the top of it.
Genesis 28: 19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Genesis 28: 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying: 'If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Genesis 28: 21 so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then shall the LORD be my God,
Genesis 28: 22 and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that Thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee.'
Genesis 29: 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
Genesis 29: 2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. --For out of that well they watered the flocks. And the stone upon the well's mouth was great.
Genesis 29: 3 And thither were all the flocks gathered; and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone back upon the well's mouth in its place.--
Genesis 29: 4 And Jacob said unto them: 'My brethren, whence are ye?' And they said: 'Of Haran are we.'
Genesis 29: 5 And he said unto them: 'Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?' And they said: 'We know him.'
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