“Nearer, My God, to Thee” is a 19thcentury Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, which retells the story of Jacob’s dream in Genesis 28:11–12: “So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on ...
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