Genesis 28:21
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New International Version (©2011)
so that I return safely to my father's household, then the LORD will be my God

New Living Translation (©2007)
and if I return safely to my father's home, then the LORD will certainly be my God.

English Standard Version (©2001)
so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the LORD shall be my God,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and I return to my father's house in safety, then the LORD will be my God.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and if I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and returns me safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God,

NET Bible (©2006)
and I return safely to my father's home, then the LORD will become my God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
and if I return safely to my father's home, then the LORD will be my God.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:

American King James Version
So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:

American Standard Version
so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Jehovah will be my God,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I shall return prosperously to my father's house: the Lord shall be my God:

Darby Bible Translation
and I come again to my father's house in peace then shall Jehovah be my God.

English Revised Version
so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the LORD be my God,

Webster's Bible Translation
So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:

World English Bible
so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

Young's Literal Translation
when I have turned back in peace unto the house of my father, and Jehovah hath become my God,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

28:20-22 Jacob made a solemn vow on this occasion. In this observe, 1. Jacob's 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 are bound to be content, and cheerfully to enjoy him in it. 3. Jacob's piety, and his regard to God, appear in what he desired, that God would be with him, and keep him. We need desire no more to make us easy and 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 should abound in gratitude to him. The tenth is a fit proportion to be devoted 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 stand 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!

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So that I come again to my father's house in peace,.... In safety from Esau, and all other enemies, as God promised him he should:

then the Lord shall be my God; not as if he should not be his God if he did not do all this for him; which would savour not only of a mercenary spirit, but of great impiety; neither of which were to be found in Jacob: but the meaning is, that he should not only continue to own him as his God, and to worship him, but having fresh obligations upon him, should be stirred up more eagerly and devoutly to serve him in a very singular way and manner, and particularly by doing what is expressed in Genesis 28:22. Some think he has respect to the Messiah, owning him to be the true God with the Father and the blessed Spirit, who had appeared to Abraham, and was the fear of Isaac, and whom Jacob now owned as his God: this receives some confirmation from the Targum of Jonathan, which begins the paragraph thus,"if the Word of the Lord will be my help, &c. then the Lord shall be my God.''

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The Stone of Bethel
…20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: 22And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that you shall give me I will surely give the tenth to you.

Deuteronomy 26:17 You have declared this day that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in obedience to him, that you will keep his decrees, commands and laws--that you will listen to him.
Judges 11:31 whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering."
2 Samuel 15:8 While your servant was living at Geshur in Aram, I made this vow: 'If the LORD takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.'"