Genesis 33:17

World English Bible (2000)

Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

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  • Josh 13:27 : 27 and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan's bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
  • Judg 8:5 : 5 He said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."
  • Ps 60:6 : 6 God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
  • Judg 8:8 : 8 He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
  • Judg 8:16 : 16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
  • 1 Kgs 7:46 : 46 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
  • Exod 12:37 : 37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
  • Exod 13:20 : 20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
  • Judg 8:14 : 14 He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.

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    5 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.

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    18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

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    16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

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    6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

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    16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

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    15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

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    25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

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    8 He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

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    10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

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    20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

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

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    27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

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    19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

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    5 How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!

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    3 He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

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    3 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

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    27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

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    21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

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    18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

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