Genesis 29:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Jacob went on his journey till he came to the land of the children of the East.

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  • Judg 6:3 : 3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;
  • Judg 6:33 : 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.
  • Num 23:7 : 7 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.
  • Gen 22:20-23 : 20 After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children; 21 Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram, 22 And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel. 23 Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
  • Gen 24:10 : 10 And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.
  • Gen 25:20 : 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
  • Gen 28:5-7 : 5 So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. 6 So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan; 7 And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;
  • Judg 7:12 : 12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.
  • Judg 8:10 : 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.
  • 1 Kgs 4:30 : 30 And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.
  • Ps 119:60 : 60 I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.
  • Eccl 9:7 : 7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.

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    10 So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.

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    2 And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.

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    9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.

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    25 So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.

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    25 Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead.

  • Gen 31:3-4
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    3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

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    7 And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;

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    1 And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.

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    21 So he went away with all he had, and went across the River in the direction of the hill-country of Gilead.

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    29 So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying,

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    1 And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

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    1 And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.

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    25 Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.

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    6 And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:

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    9 Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

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    27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

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    16 So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.