Genesis 29:1

New Century Version

Then Jacob continued his journey and came to the land of the people of the East.

Cross References

Genesis 24:10

The servant took ten of Abraham’s camels and left, carrying with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Northwest Mesopotamia to Nahor’s city.

Genesis 25:20

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, who came from Northwest Mesopotamia. She was Bethuel’s daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 25:6

But before Abraham died, he did give gifts to the sons of his other wives, then sent them to the East to be away from Isaac.

Genesis 35:1

God said to Jacob, “Go to the city of Bethel and live there. Make an altar to the God who appeared to you there when you were running away from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:7

There Jacob built an altar and named the place Bethel, after God, because God had appeared to him there when he was running from his brother.

1 Kings 4:30

His wisdom was greater than any wisdom of the East, or any wisdom in Egypt.

Psalm 119:32

I will quickly obey your commands, because you have made me happy.

Psalm 119:60

I hurried and did not wait to obey your commands.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

So go eat your food and enjoy it; drink your wine and be happy, because that is what God wants you to do.

Hosea 12:12

Your ancestor Jacob fled to Northwest Mesopotamia where he worked to get a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Numbers 23:7

when Balaam gave them this message: “Balak brought me here from Aram; the king of Moab brought me from the eastern mountains. Balak said, ‘Come, put a curse on the people of Jacob for me. Come, call down evil on the people of Israel.’

Judges 6:3

Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other peoples from the east would come and attack them.

Judges 6:33

All the Midianites, the Amalekites, and other peoples from the east joined together and came across the Jordan River and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

Judges 7:12

The Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the peoples from the east were camped in that valley. There were so many of them they seemed like locusts. Their camels could not be counted because they were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore!

Judges 8:10

Zebah and Zalmunna and their army were in the city of Karkor. About fifteen thousand men were left of the armies of the peoples of the east. Already one hundred twenty thousand soldiers had been killed.