Hosea 12:12

A Conservative Version

And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].

Cross References

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years I have been in thy house. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock. And thou have changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 27:43

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran.

Deuteronomy 26:5

And thou shall answer and say before LORD thy God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number. And he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go, for thou know my service with which I have served thee.

Hosea 4:15

Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend, and come not ye to Gilgal, nor go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As LORD lives.

Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.