Hosea 12:12
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.
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Hosea 12:12
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.
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Genesis 11:31
And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.
Genesis 22:20
After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
Genesis 22:21
Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,
Genesis 22:22
And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.
Genesis 22:23
Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Genesis 24:4
But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.
Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.
Genesis 28:6
So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;
Genesis 28:7
And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;
Genesis 28:10
So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.
Genesis 28:20
Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on,
Judges 6:3
And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;
Judges 6:33
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.
Acts 7:2
And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,
Acts 25:13
Now when some days had gone by, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea and went to see Festus.
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Genesis 26:5
Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.
Genesis 27:35
And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and took away your blessing.
Genesis 32:27
Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
Genesis 32:28
And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
Hosea 12:3
In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;
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Genesis 29:21
Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.
Genesis 29:22
And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast.
Genesis 29:23
And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.
Genesis 29:24
And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.
Genesis 29:25
And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?
Genesis 29:26
And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married before the older.
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Genesis 30:25
Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.
Genesis 31:15
Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.
Genesis 34:12
However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.
Exodus 22:16
If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.
1 Samuel 18:18
And David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my father's family in Israel, that I am to be son-in-law to the king?
1 Samuel 18:19
But when the time came to give Merab, Saul's daughter, to David, she was given to Adriel of Meholath.
1 Samuel 18:20
And Saul's daughter Michal was in love with David: and Saul had word of it and was pleased.
1 Samuel 18:21
And Saul said, I will give her to him, so that she may be a cause of danger to him, and so that the hands of the Philistines may be against him. So Saul said to David, Today you are to become my son-in-law for the second time.
1 Samuel 18:22
And Saul gave his servants orders saying, Have talk with David secretly and say to him, See how the king has delight in you, and how you are loved by all his servants: then be the king's son-in-law.
1 Samuel 18:23
And Saul's servants said these things to David. And David said, Does it seem to you a small thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, of no great name?
1 Samuel 18:24
And the servants of Saul gave him an account of what David had said.
1 Samuel 18:25
And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 18:26
And when his servants said these words to David, he was well pleased to be the son-in-law of the king. And the days were still not past.
1 Samuel 18:27
So David and his men got up and went, and put to death two hundred of the Philistines; and David took their private parts and gave the full number of them to the king, so that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for his wife.
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Genesis 31:20
And Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean.
Genesis 31:21
So he went away with all he had, and went across the River in the direction of the hill-country of Gilead.
Genesis 31:26
And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?
Genesis 31:31
And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your daughters from me by force.
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Genesis 48:7
And as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook Rachel on the way, when we were still some distance from Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the road to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
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Exodus 22:17
If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.
2 Samuel 3:14
And David sent men to Saul's son Ish-bosheth, saying, Give me back Michal, my wife, whom I made mine for the price of the private parts of a hundred Philistines.
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Genesis 28:1
Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;
Judges 7:12
Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.
Judges 8:10
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.
1 Kings 4:30
And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Romans 15:4
Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.
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1 Samuel 15:23
For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.
Hosea 10:8
And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.
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Job 7:3
So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
Isaiah 30:28
And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.
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Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
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Hosea 3:1
And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.
Hosea 3:3
And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.
Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.
Hosea 3:5
And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.
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Amos 6:8
The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.
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Matthew 24:20
And say a prayer that your flight may not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.
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Genesis 30:31
And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me:
Genesis 31:39
Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.
Genesis 31:40
This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.
Exodus 2:19
And they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the keepers of sheep and got water for us and gave it to the flock.
Exodus 2:20
And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal.
Exodus 2:21
And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
Exodus 2:22
And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.
Exodus 3:1
Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Psalms 78:70
He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;
Psalms 78:71
From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.
Luke 2:8
And in the same country there were keepers of sheep in the fields, watching over their flock by night.
John 21:15
Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.
John 21:16
Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus.
John 21:17
He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.
1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;
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Ruth 4:10
And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day.
Proverbs 18:22
Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.
Proverbs 19:14
House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
Proverbs 31:10
Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.
Proverbs 31:11
The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
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Hebrews 13:7
Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.
1 Peter 5:3
Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
1 Peter 5:4
And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.
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