And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.

And the angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.

and the messenger of God saith unto me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here am I.

And the Angel of God said to me in my sleep, 'Jacob.' And I responded, 'Here I am.'

Et dixit ad me Angelus Dei in somnio, Iahacob. Et dixi, Ecce adsum.

The angel of God spake unto me in a dream - It is strange that we had not heard of this dream before; and yet it seems to have taken place before the cattle brought forth, immediately after the bargain between him and Laban. If we follow the Samaritan the difficulty is at once removed, for it gives us the whole of this dream after Genesis 30:36 of the preceding chapter,

And the Angel of God spake unto me in a dream,.... In the same dream before related, and to direct him to observe what was presented to him, and to confirm what he saw, and lead him to the design and use of it. This was not a created angel, but the eternal one, the Son of God, and who is afterwards called God, and to whom Jacob had made a vow, which he would never have done to an angel; but to God only, as Ben Melech observes:
saying, Jacob; and I said, here am I; the Angel called him by his name, to which he answered, and signified that he was ready to attend to whatsoever he should say to him.