Genesis 29:1

Genesis chapter 29 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

Context

v.1This passage

v.2And he looked, and, behold, a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and the stone upon the well’s mouth was great.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Numbers 23:7

    And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram hath Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, And come, defy Israel.

  • Judges 6:3

    And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

  • Judges 7:12

    And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

  • Genesis 24:10

    And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, having all goodly things of his master’s in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

  • Hosea 12:12

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

  • Genesis 22:20

    And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor: