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Stone of Jacob

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at Westminster. On 23 December 2020 it was announced by the Scottish Government that the stone is to be relocated to a newly renovated 'Hall of Destiny' in Perth's city centre, only a few miles from Scone.
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Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
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There above it stood the Lord, and he said: "I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
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After waking up, Jacob exclaimed, "How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." Subsequently, he called the place
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When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
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I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
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He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
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The Stone of Scone, brought to Westminster around 1300, has been confirmed by geologists to be a "lower
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According to account given in Genesis, Jacob was fleeing from his elder twin brother
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Illustration of Jacob's dream in the Book of Genesis
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Jacob's Pillow-Pillar Stone


Beit El
Binyamin
Zev Vilnay
Book of Genesis
Israelite
Jacob
Bet-El
Scottish folklore
British Israelism
Esau
Isaac
Genesis 28:10-15
New International Version
Bethel
Scottish
Stone of Scone
High Middle Ages
Jeremiah
John Speed
coronation of James I
British Israelism
British royal family
King David
King Edward's Chair
"Stone of Destiny a 'fake to dupe invading English', Abbot of Scone hid real stone from Edward I, says Salmond"
The Times
Old Red Sandstone

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