Genesis 29:1

And Jacob started and went to the land of the east to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Syrian, and the brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And he looks, and behold! a well in the plain; and there were there three flocks of sheep resting at it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, but there was a great stone at the mouth of the well.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:10And the servant took ten camels of his master’s camels, and he took of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.

Genesis 25:20Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.

Genesis 35:1And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to the place, Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God that appeared to thee, when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Numbers 23:7And he took up his parable, and said, 1 Balak king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, 1 Out of the mountains of the east, saying, 1 Come, curse me Jacob, 1 And Come, call for a curse for me upon Israel. 1

Judges 6:33And all Midian, and Amalek, and the sons of the east gathered themselves together, and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.

Judges 8:10And Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their host was with them, about fifteen thousand, all that were left of all the host of the aliens; and they that fell were a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew the sword.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 29:1

This chapter gives us an account of God's providences concerning Jacob, pursuant to the promises made to him in the foregoing chapter. I. How he was brought in safety to his journey's end, and directed to his relations there, who bade him welcome, ver. 1-14 . II. How he was comfortably disposed of in marriage, ver. 15-30 . III. How his family was built up in the birth of four sons, ver. 31-35 . The affairs of princes and mighty nations that were then in being are not recorded in the book of God, but are left to be… Read the whole commentary →

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