The wanderings of Jacob
Fleeing his brother, serving in a far country, and returning transformed as Israel.
- Beersheba · Year 1 — Flees the anger of Esau
- Bethel · Year 1 — Dreams of the ladder to heaven
- Haran · Years 1–20 — Serves Laban twenty years; marries and prospers
- Peniel · Year 20 — Wrestles with God and is renamed Israel
- Shechem · Year 21 — Re-enters Canaan
- Hebron · Year 22 — Reunited with his father Isaac
- Egypt · Later — Goes down to Joseph in his old age
