Hosea 12:12

Expanded Bible

¹² ·Your ancestor Jacob [^LJacob] fled to ·northwest Mesopotamia [^LAram; Gen. 28:5]
    where he ·worked [served; ^Chis uncle Laban] to get a wife [^CRachel (and Leah); Gen. 29:20, 28];
    he tended sheep to pay for her.