Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
- KJV Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.
- NKJV So Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the East.
- NASB Then Jacob set out on his journey, and went to the land of the people of the east.
- NLT Then Jacob hurried on, finally arriving in the land of the east.
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Quick answer
Jacob continues his journey and arrives in the land of the people of the east.
Overview
With renewed purpose after Bethel, Jacob presses on toward Haran, the region of his mother's family. The brief travel note conveys momentum, as if the encounter with God gave fresh energy to his steps. God's providence now guides him toward the household where the covenant family will be built.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Judg 6:3Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
- Judg 6:33Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
- Hos 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
- Num 23:7And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
- Eccl 9:7Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
- Ps 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
- Ps 119:60I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.
- 1 Kgs 4:30Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
- Judg 7:12Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
- Gen 25:20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
- Judg 8:10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.
- Gen 22:20–23Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
- Gen 24:10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.
- Gen 28:5–7So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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