Genesis 35:14
But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ille vero erexit titulum lapideum in loco quo locutus fuerat ei Deus : libans super eum libamina, et effundens oleum :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔστησεν Ἰακὼβ στήλην ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ᾧ ἐλάλησεν μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ, στήλην λιθίνην· καὶ ἔσπεισεν ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν σπονδήν, καὶ ἐπέχεεν ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν ἔλαιον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּצֵּ֨ב יַעֲקֹ֜ב מַצֵּבָ֗ה בַּמָּק֛וֹם אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּ֥ר אִתּ֖וֹ מַצֶּ֣בֶת אָ֑בֶן וַיַּסֵּ֤ךְ עָלֶ֨יהָ֙ נֶ֔סֶךְ וַיִּצֹ֥ק עָלֶ֖יהָ שָֽׁמֶן
Haydock's commentary
Set up either a fresh altar, or restored the stone which he had formerly used for sacrifice. (St. Augustine q. 116.)
Drink, wine.
Oil. Theophrastus, speaking of a man addicted to superstition, says, "he adores every anointed stone." (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.