Genesis 29:1

In 11 translations

BSB

Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

KJV

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.went…: Heb. lift up his feetpeople: Heb. children

WEB

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

ASV

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

LSV

And Jacob lifts up his feet, and goes toward the land of the sons of the east;

YLT

And Jacob lifteth up his feet, and goeth towards the land of the sons of the east;

DBY

And Jacob continued his journey, and went into the land of the children of the east.

DRC

Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.

GNV

Then Iaakob lift vp his feete and came into the East countrey.

JPS

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

LXXE

And Jacob started and went to the land of the east to Laban, the son of Bathuel the Syrian, and the brother of Rebecca, mother of Jacob and Esau.Gr. having lifted up his feet, went, etc.

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WLC

וַיִּשָּׂ֥א יַעֲקֹ֖ב רַגְלָ֑יו וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ אַ֥רְצָה בְנֵי־קֶֽדֶם׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐξᾴρας Ἰακὼβ τοὺς πόδας ἐπορεύθη εἰς γῆν ἀνατολῶν, πρὸς Λάβαν τὸν υἱὸν Βαθουὴλ τοῦ Σύρου, ἀδελφὸν δὲ Ῥεβέκκας, μητρὸς Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἡσαῦ.

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• Judges 6:3Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
• Judges 6:33Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
• Hosea 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife— for a wife he tended sheep.
• Numbers 23:7And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
• Psalms 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
• Ecclesiastes 9:7Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
• Psalms 119:60I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.
• 1 Kings 4:30Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
• Genesis 25:20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
• Genesis 22:20–23Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor: Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram), Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” And Bethuel became the…
• Judges 8:10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.
• Genesis 28:5–7So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau. Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a…
• Judges 7:12Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
• Genesis 24:10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.

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