Genesis 29:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

As Jacob continued on his way to the east,

Cross References

Genesis 24:10

Soon after that, the servant loaded ten of Abraham's camels with valuable gifts. Then he set out for the city in northern Syria, where Abraham's brother Nahor lived.

Genesis 25:20

and he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel. She was also the sister of Laban, the Aramean from northern Syria. Almost twenty years later,

Genesis 35:1

God told Jacob, “Return to Bethel, where I appeared to you when you were running from your brother Esau. Make your home there and build an altar for me.”

Genesis 35:7

Jacob built an altar there and called it “God of Bethel”, because that was the place where God had appeared to him when he was running from Esau.

1 Kings 4:30

He was wiser than anyone else in the world, including the wisest people of the east and of Egypt. He was even wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Mahol's three sons, Heman, Calcol, and Darda. Solomon became famous in every country around Judah and Israel.

Psalm 119:32

I am eager to learn all that you want me to do; help me to understand more and more.

Psalm 119:60

As soon as you command, I do what you say.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Be happy and enjoy eating and drinking! God decided long ago that this is what you should do.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob escaped to Syria where he tended sheep to earn himself a wife.

Numbers 23:7

Balaam said: “King Balak of Moab brought me from the hills of Syria to curse Israel and announce its doom.

Judges 6:3

Every time the Israelites would plant crops, the Midianites invaded Israel together with the Amalekites and other eastern nations.

Judges 6:33

All the Midianites, Amalekites, and other eastern nations got together and crossed the River Jordan. Then they invaded the land of Israel and set up camp in Jezreel Valley.

Judges 7:12

The camp was huge. The Midianites, Amalekites, and other eastern nations covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. And it would be easier to count the grains of sand on a beach than to count their camels.

Judges 8:10

Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with an army of fifteen thousand troops. They were all that was left of the army of the eastern nations, because one hundred and twenty thousand of their warriors had been killed in the battle.