Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
New American Standard Bible
And
And for a wife he kept sheep.
King James Version
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Holman Bible
Israel worked to earn a wife;
he tended flocks for a wife.
International Standard Version
Jacob fled into the land of Aram; Israel served there to obtain his wife, tending sheep to gain his wife.
American Standard Version
And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept'sheep .
Amplified
Now Jacob (Israel) fled into the open country of Aram (Paddan-aram),
And [there] Israel (Jacob) worked and served for a wife,
And for a wife he kept sheep.
Bible in Basic English
And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Darby Translation
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Julia Smith Translation
And Jacob will flee to the field of Aram, and Israel will serve for a wife, and for a wife he watched.
King James 2000
And Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Jacob fled [to] the open field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he watched over [sheep].
Modern King James verseion
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept watch.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Jacob fled into the land of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
NET Bible
Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.
New Heart English Bible
Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
The Emphasized Bible
When Jacob fled to the country of Syria, then Israel served for a wife, and, for a wife, he watched over a flock.
Webster
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
World English Bible
Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch.
Themes
jacob » Esau seeks to kill, escapes to padan-aram
jacob » Serves fourteen years for leah and rachel
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 12:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Further Indictment Of Jacob's Heirs
11 Is Gilead iniquity? They are altogether false. In Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks. Yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field. 12 And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep]. 13 And by a prophet LORD brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
Cross References
Genesis 27:43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran.
Genesis 28:1-22
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and ordered him, and said to him, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 29:18-28
And Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in thy house. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock. And thou have changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 32:27-28
And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
Deuteronomy 26:5
And thou shall answer and say before LORD thy God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number. And he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.