Hosea 12:12

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 27:43

So, my son, do what I say. My brother Laban is living in Haran. Go to him at once!

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children and let me go. I have earned them by working for you, and you know that I have served you well.”

Genesis 31:41

I worked like a slave for you for twenty years—the first fourteen to get your two daughters and the last six to earn your flocks. During that time you changed my pay ten times.

Hosea 4:15

“Israel, you act like a prostitute, but do not be guilty toward the Lord. Don’t go to Gilgal or go up to Beth Aven. Don’t make promises, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives …’

Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of people who do evil; their footprints are bloody.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you shall announce before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with only a few people, but they became a great, powerful, and large nation there.