Genesis 31:17
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Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.

upon camels.

Genesis 24:10,61 And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor. . . .

1 Samuel 30:17 And David slew them from the evening unto the evening of the next day, and there escaped not a man of them, but four hundred young men, who had gotten upon camels, and fled.

Context
Jacob Flees from Laban
16But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee. 17Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.18And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:16
But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.

Genesis 31:18
And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan.

Lexicon
So Jacob
יַעֲקֹ֑ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

got up
וַיָּ֖קָם (way·yā·qām)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

and put
וַיִּשָּׂ֛א (way·yiś·śā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

his children
בָּנָ֥יו (bā·nāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

and his wives
נָשָׁ֖יו (nā·šāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

camels,
הַגְּמַלִּֽים׃ (hag·gə·mal·lîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1581: A camel


Additional Translations
So Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on camels;

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;

And Jacob arose and took his wives and his children up on the camels;

And Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels,

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;

Then Jacob arose, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

And Jacob riseth, and lifteth up his sons and his wives on the camels,
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