Genesis 29:1 - Exposition

Then Jacob went on his journey (literally, lifted up his feet—a graphic description of traveling. Inspired by new hopes, and conscious of loftier aims than when he fled from Beersheba, the lonely furtive departed from Bethel), and came into the land of the people of the east —literally, the land of the sons of the east , i . e . Mesopotamia, about 450 miles distant from Beersheba.