God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
Parallel translations
- KJV And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
- BSB Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.
- NKJV Then God went up from him in the place where He talked with him.
- NASB Then God went up from him at the place where He had spoken with him.
- NLT Then God went up from the place where he had spoken to Jacob.
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Cross-references · 6
- Gen 17:22When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
- Gen 18:33Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
- Judg 13:20For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
- Judg 6:21Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight.
- Gen 11:5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Luke 24:31Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.
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