Hosea 12:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years I have been 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.

Genesis 27:43

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran,

Deuteronomy 26:5

you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.

Genesis 30:26

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

Hosea 4:15

Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, do not let Judah become guilty. Do not enter into Gilgal or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As the Lord lives.”

Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.