Objects
stone
Jacob uses stones as his pillow and covenant markers at Bethel, at the well, and in the Galeed cairn with Laban.
Category
Objects
First mention
Genesis 28:11
Tags
2
Genesis 28-29, 31Worship marker
Scripture references
- Genesis 28:11
Taking one of the stones of that place, he made it his pillow and lay down where he was.
- Genesis 28:18
Jacob took the stone he had used for his pillow, and set it up as a pillar, pouring oil over the top of it.
- Genesis 28:22
This stone I have set up as a pillar is to be a house of God,
- Genesis 29:2
Now the stone on the mouth of the well was a large one,
- Genesis 29:10
rolling the stone off the mouth of the well, watered his uncle Laban's sheep.
- Genesis 31:45
Jacob then took a stone and set it up as a memorial.
- Genesis 31:46
Jacob said to his kinsmen, 'Collect some stones,' and gathering some stones they made a cairn.