Parallel Verses
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.
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.
A Conservative Version
And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
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 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
`abad
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 12:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Further Indictment Of Jacob's Heirs
11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal. Yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields. 12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept watch. 13 And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.
Cross References
Genesis 27:43
And now, my son, obey my voice and arise. Flee for yourself to my brother Laban, to Haran,
Genesis 28:1-22
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him. And he said to him, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 29:18-28
And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.
Genesis 31:41
And I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six for your flocks. And you have changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 32:27-28
And He said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall speak and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish. And he went down to Egypt, and stayed there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and many.