The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and with all kinds of his master’s goods in hand, he went to Aram-naharaim, to Nahor’s town.
Genesis 29:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Jacob resumed his journey and went to the eastern country. , Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THEN JACOB went [briskly and cheerfully] on his way [400 miles] and came to the land of the people of the East. American Standard Version (1901) Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. Common English Bible Jacob got to his feet and set out for the land of the easterners. Catholic Public Domain Version And so Jacob, setting out, arrived in the eastern land. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country. |
The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and with all kinds of his master’s goods in hand, he went to Aram-naharaim, to Nahor’s town.
Isaac was forty years old when he took as his wife Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, and while he was still alive he sent them eastwards, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.
God said to Jacob, ‘Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.’
Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works.
Jacob fled to the territory of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.
Balaam proclaimed his poem: Balak brought me from Aram; the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, put a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel! ’
Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east came and attacked them.
All the Midianites, Amalekites, and people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Jezreel Valley.
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and with them was their army of about fifteen thousand men, who were all those left of the entire army of the people of the east. Those who had been killed were one hundred and twenty thousand armed men.