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Genesis 29:1

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

KJV

Profectus ergo Jacob venit in terram orientalem.

Vulgate

Καὶ ἐξάρας Ἰακὼβ τοὺς πόδας ἐπορεύθη εἰς γῆν ἀνατολῶν πρὸς Λαβὰν τὸν υἱὸν Βαθουὴλ τοῦ Σύρου, ἀδελφὸν δὲ Ῥεβέκκας μητρὸς Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἠσαύ.

LXX

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

ASV

וַ/יִּשָּׂ֥א יַעֲקֹ֖ב רַגְלָ֑י/ו וַ/יֵּ֖לֶךְ אַ֥רְצָ/ה בְנֵי קֶֽדֶם

Hebrew

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People JacobJacob

In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
ה
h
noun · 87×
ו
v
noun · 247×
יַעֲקֹ֖ב
y'qb
proper_noun · 346×
יִּשְׂא֥וּ
ysh'v
verb · 652×
יֵּ֥לֶךְ
ylk
verb · 1038×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Covers Jacob and Esau, Joseph's rise in Egypt, the famine, Jacob's family settling in Goshen, the enslavement of Israel, the birth and early life of Moses, the ten plagues, and the Exodus from Egypt including the crossing of the Red Sea.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 4:30 — And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
  • Eccl 9:7 — Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
  • Hos 12:12 — And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
  • Job 1:3 — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all
  • Judg 6:3 — And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
  • Judg 6:3 — And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
  • Judg 6:33 — Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
  • Num 23:7 — And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
  • Ps 119:32 — I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
  • Ps 119:60 — I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.