SEV Biblia, Chapter 28:20
E hizo Jacob voto, diciendo: Si fuere Dios conmigo, y me guardare en este viaje donde voy, y me diere pan para comer y vestido para vestir,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 28:20
Verse 20. Vowed a vow] A vow is a solemn, holy promise, by which a man bound himself to do certain things in a particular way, time, &c., and for power to accomplish which he depended on God; hence all vows were made with prayer. If God will be with me, &c.] Jacob seems to make this vow rather for his posterity than for himself, as we may learn from Genesis xxviii. 13-15; for he particularly refers to the promises which God had made to him, which concerned the multiplication of his offspring, and their establishment in that land. If, then, God shall fulfill these promises, he binds his posterity to build God a house, and to devote for the maintenance of his worship the tenth of all their earthly goods. This mode of interpretation removes that appearance of self-interest which almost any other view of the subject presents. Jacob had certainly, long ere this, taken Jehovah for his God; and so thoroughly had he been instructed in the knowledge of Jehovah, that we may rest satisfied no reverses of fortune could have induced him to apostatize: but as his taking refuge with Laban was probably typical of the sojourning of his descendants in Egypt, his persecution, so as to be obliged to depart from Laban, the bad treatment of his posterity by the Egyptians, his rescue from death, preservation on his journey, re-establishment in his own country, &c., were all typical of the exodus of his descendants, their travels in the desert, and establishment in the promised land, where they built a house to God, and where, for the support and maintenance of the pure worship of God, they gave to the priests and Levites the tenth of all their worldly produce. If all this be understood as referring to Jacob only, the Scripture gives us no information how he performed his vow.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-22 - Jacob made a solemn vow on this occasion. In this observe, 1. Jacob' faith. He trusts that God will be with him, and will keep him; he depends upon it. 2. Jacob's moderation in his desires. He asks not for soft clothing and dainty meat. If God give us much, we are bound to be thankful, and to use it for him; if he gives us but little, we ar bound to be content, and cheerfully to enjoy him in it. 3. Jacob' piety, and his regard to God, appear in what he desired, that God woul be with him, and keep him. We need desire no more to make us easy an happy. Also his resolution is, to cleave to the Lord, as his God in covenant. When we receive more than common mercy from God, we shoul abound in gratitude to him. The tenth is a fit proportion to be devote to God, and employed for him; though it may be more or less, as God prospers us, 1Co 16:2. Let us then remember our Bethels, how we stan engaged by solemn vows to yield ourselves to the Lord, to take him for our God, and to devote all we have and are to his glory __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וידר 5087 יעקב 3290 נדר 5088 לאמר 559 אם 518 יהיה 1961 אלהים 430 עמדי 5978 ושׁמרני 8104 בדרך 1870 הזה 2088 אשׁר 834 אנכי 595 הולך 1980 ונתן 5414 לי לחם 3899 לאכל 398 ובגד 899 ללבשׁ׃ 3847
