Genesis 29:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

THEN JACOB went [briskly and cheerfully] on his way [400 miles] and came to the land of the people of the East.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Jacob got to his feet and set out for the land of the easterners.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And so Jacob, setting out, arrived in the eastern land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Genesis 29:1 Cross References

Genesis 24:10

Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, taking all kinds of choice gifts from his master, and he set out and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

Genesis 25:20

and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 25:6

But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, while he was still living, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.

Genesis 35:1

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:7

and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

1 Kings 4:30

so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Psalm 119:32

I run the way of your commandments, for you enlarge my understanding.

Psalm 119:60

I hurry and do not delay to keep your commandments.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has long ago approved what you do.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying, “Balak has brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, denounce Israel!’

Judges 6:3

For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.

Judges 6:33

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came together, and they crossed over and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.

Judges 7:12

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley as thick as locusts, and their camels were without number, countless as the sand on the seashore.

Judges 8:10

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the east, for one hundred twenty thousand men bearing arms had fallen.