KJV King James Version
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
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Genesis 33:17
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
but Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
WEB World English Bible
Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
ASV American Standard Version
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Jacob hath journeyed to Succoth, and buildeth to himself a house, and for his cattle hath made booths, therefore hath he called the name of the place Succoth.
Surrounding context — Genesis 33
14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the folk that [are] with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.
20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.
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וְיַעֲקֹב֙H3290 · ya.a.qovJacobנָסַ֣עH5265 · na.sato set outסֻכֹּ֔תָהH5523 · suk.kotSuccothוַיִּ֥בֶןH1129 · ba.nahto buildל֖וֹH9033 · ohimבָּ֑יִתH1004 · betplaceוּלְמִקְנֵ֙הוּ֙H4735 · miq.nehlivestockעָשָׂ֣הH6213 · a.sahto make: doסֻכֹּ֔תH5521 · suk.kahboothעַל־H5921 · aluponכֵּ֛ןH3651 · kenrightקָרָ֥אH7121 · qa.rato call: call toשֵׁם־H8034 · shemnameהַמָּק֖וֹםH4725 · ma.qomplaceסֻכּֽוֹת׃ סH5523 · suk.kotSuccoth
Cross-references
Psalm 60:6God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.Joshua 13:27And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and [his] border, [even] unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.Judges 8:5And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they [be] faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.Judges 8:8And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered [him].Judges 8:16And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.1 Kings 7:46In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children.Judges 8:14And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, [even] threescore and seventeen men.Exodus 13:20And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
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