Holy Scripture
Hosea 12:13
A church father on this verse
“Jacob fled into the region of Syria and served for Israel in his wife, and he kept watch over his wife. In the prophet, the Lord led Israel out of Egypt, and in the prophet, he was saved. The seventy interpreters [translators] say: And Jacob went into the plain of Syria and served for Israel in his wife, and he kept w…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
13And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
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In context
11And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
12If Gilead exists not, then the chiefs in Gilead when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.
— Hosea 12:13 —
14And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserved.
15Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.