Jacob's Ladder
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ladder to heaven seen by the biblical patriarch Jacob in a dream
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- Heaven in Christianity
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- Genesis 28
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Picture of the Jacob's Ladder in the original Luther Bibles (of 1534 and also 1545)
Jacob's Ladder (Biblical Hebrew: סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב, romanized: Sūllām Yaʿăqōḇ) is a ladder or staircase leading to Heaven that was featured in a dream the Biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28).
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