Genesis 29:1
Then Jacob [Supplanter] went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
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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.
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Cross References
Genesis 24:10The servant took ten camels, of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Genesis 25:20Isaac [Laughter] was forty years old when he took Rebekah [Securely bound], the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram [Elevated], the sister of Laban [White] the Syrian, to be his wife.
Genesis 35:1God said to Jacob [Supplanter], “Arise, go up to Beth-el [House of God], and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau [Hairy] your brother.”
Numbers 23:7He took up his parable, and said, 1 “From Aram [Elevated] has Balak brought me, 2 the king of Moab [From father] from the mountains of the East. 1 Come, curse Jacob [Supplanter] for me. 2 Come, defy Israel [God prevails]. 1
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 →