Genesis 29:1
Good News Translation
Jacob continued on his way and went toward the land of the East.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of the east.

Contemporary English Version
As Jacob continued on his way to the east,

New American Bible
After Jacob resumed his journey, he came to the land of the Kedemites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.

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Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.

Jacob.

Psalm 119:32,60 I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

went on his journey.

Genesis 22:20-23 After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother. . . .

Genesis 24:10 And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.

Genesis 25:20 Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

Genesis 28:5-7 And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother to Rebecca, his mother. . . .

Numbers 23:7 And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.

Judges 6:3,33 And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up: . . .

Judges 7:12 But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.

Judges 8:10 But Zebee and Salmana were resting with all their army. For fifteen thousand men were left of all the troops of the eastern people, and one hundred and twenty thousand warriors that drew the sword were slain.

1 Kings 4:30 And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyptians;

Hosea 12:12 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.

people.

Context
Jacob Meets Rachel
1Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.2And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying by it: for the beasts were watered out of it, and the mouth thereof was closed with a great stone.…
Cross References
Judges 6:3
And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up:

Judges 6:33
Now all Madian, and Amalec, and the eastern people, were gathered together, and passing over the Jordan, camped in the valley of Jezrael.

1 Kings 4:30
And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyptians;

Genesis 28:22
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