Genesis 29:1

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Summary

Genesis 29:1

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

Jacob

Psalm 119:32

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Came

Bible References

Jacob

I shall run the way of Your commandments,
For You will enlarge my heart.

Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.

Came

Now it came about after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

He took up his discourse and said,
“From Aram Balak has brought me,
Moab’s king from the mountains of the East,
‘Come curse Jacob for me,
And come, denounce Israel!’

For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go against them.

Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about 15,000 men, all who were left of the entire army of the sons of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 swordsmen.

Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram,
And Israel worked for a wife,
And for a wife he kept sheep.