Hosea 12:12 - Modern King James Version

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

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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

And now, my son, obey my voice and arise. Flee for yourself to my brother Laban, to Haran,

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 which I have done you.

Genesis 31:41

And I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six for your flocks. And you have changed my wages ten times.

Hosea 4:15

Though you, Israel, fornicate, yet do not let Judah become guilty. And do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah lives.

Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of trouble-makers, slippery with blood marks.

Deuteronomy 26:5

And you shall speak and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish. And he went down to Egypt, and stayed there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and many.