Hosea 12:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹² Ya`akov fled into the country of Aram, and Yisra'el served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Jacob fled into the open country of Aram or Padan-aram, and [there] Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he herded sheep. [Gen. 29:18-20; 30:31; 31:38-41.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Common English Bible

¹² Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept watch over livestock.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Jacob fled into the region of Syria, and Israel served like a wife, and was served by a wife.

Hosea 12:12 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 27:43

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Lavan, my brother, in Charan.

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.*

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.

Hosea 4:15

*Though you, Yisra'el, play the prostitute, yet don't let Yehudah offend; and don't come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beit-Aven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'

Hosea 6:8

Gil`ad is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

Deuteronomy 26:5

You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.