Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”
Genesis 32:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But he rose up that [same] night and took his two wives, his two women servants, and his eleven sons and passed over the ford [of the] Jabbok. American Standard Version (1901) And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok. Common English Bible Jacob got up during the night, took his two wives, his two women servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the Jabbok River’s shallow water. Catholic Public Domain Version And when he had arisen early, he took his two wives, and the same number of handmaids, with his eleven sons, and he crossed over the ford of Jabbok. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And rising early he took his two wives, and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc. |
Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”
So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself spent that night in the camp.
He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.
As her soul was departing, for she was dying, she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.
You did not encroach, however, on the land of the Ammonites, avoiding the whole upper region of the Wadi Jabbok as well as the towns of the hill country, just as the Lord our God had charged.
And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Wadi Arnon, with the middle of the wadi as a boundary, and up to the Jabbok, the wadi being boundary of the Ammonites;
And whoever does not provide for relatives, and especially for family members, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
King Sihon of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the Wadi Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,
The king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel, on coming from Egypt, took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”