Génesis 28:11

11 Cuando llegó a cierto lugar, se detuvo para pasar la noche, porque ya estaba anocheciendo. Tomó una piedra, la usó como almohada, y se acostó a dormir en ese lugar.

Génesis 28:11 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 28:11

And he lighted upon a certain place
Without any design to take up there, but as it were casually to him, though very providentially, after he had travelled forty eight miles; for so far it seems it was from Beersheba to Luz or Bethel ^F11, as this place was called: and tarried there all night, because the sun was set;
which hindered his pursuing his journey any further that day, and therefore took a night's lodging here: and he took of the stones of that place; one of the stones that lay there, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech rightly interpret it, as appears from ( Genesis 28:13 ) ; though the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem will have it, that these were four stones that he took, and that by a miracle they became one, and is one of the five miracles they say were done for Jacob on that day: and put [them for] his pillows, and lay down in that place and slept;
being weary with his journey though he had no other bed than the earth, and for his pillow a stone, and for his canopy or curtain the open heaven; a different lodging this from what he had been used to in his father's house, and under the indulgence of his mother; and one would wonder how he could sleep in such circumstances, and that he did not take cold, after such a journey: but it must be considered that it was in a warm climate, and in an age when they did not use themselves to such soft beds as now, and especially that he was under the particular care of divine Providence.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Bunting's Travels, p. 72.

Génesis 28:11 In-Context

9 Por eso, aunque ya tenía otras esposas cananeas, Esaú fue hasta donde vivía Ismael hijo de Abraham y se casó con su hija Majalat, que era hermana de Nebayot.

10 Jacob partió de Berseba y se encaminó hacia Jarán.

11 Cuando llegó a cierto lugar, se detuvo para pasar la noche, porque ya estaba anocheciendo. Tomó una piedra, la usó como almohada, y se acostó a dormir en ese lugar.

12 Allí soñó que había una escalinata apoyada en la tierra, y cuyo extremo superior llegaba hasta el cielo. Por ella subían y bajaban los ángeles de Dios.

13 En el sueño, el SEÑOR estaba de pie junto a él y le decía: «Yo soy el SEÑOR, el Dios de tu abuelo Abraham y de tu padre Isaac. A ti y a tu descendencia les daré la tierra sobre la que estás acostado.