Hosea 12:12

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 27:43

Now therefore, my son, listen to me and get up and flee to Laban, my brother in Harran.

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know the service that I have given you.”

Genesis 31:41

I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Hosea 4:15

Though you play the whore, O Israel, do not let Judah offend. Do not come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As the Lord lives.”

Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of evildoers, polluted with blood.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you must answer and say before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with only a few in number, but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.