Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”
Genesis 32:22 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) The same night he arose 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 before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.
And as her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called his name Benjamin.
Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God forbade us.
and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a boundary, as far over as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites;
If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Sihon king of the Amorites who dwelt at Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,
And 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.”