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The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

Genesis 28:7

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512, Sistine Chapel

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Genesis 28:7 (WEB)

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

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  • “But Mesopotamia, he says, is the current of the great ocean flowing from the midst of the Perfect Man; and he was astonished at the celestial gate, exclaiming, “How terrible is this place! it is nought else than the house of God, and this (is) the gate of heaven.”” — editor's note: Gen. xxviii. 7, 17.

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