Hosea 12:12

Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble

12:12 Jacob fled to the country of Aram,

then Israel worked ¹  to acquire a wife;

he tended sheep to pay for her.

[12:12]  ¹ tn Heb “served” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “earned a wife.”