New Revised Standard Version
For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.

Contemporary English Version
Every time the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites invaded Israel together with the Amalekites and other eastern nations.

New American Bible
For it used to be that whenever the Israelites had completed sowing their crops, Midian, Amalek, and the Kedemites would come up,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up:

And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up:

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Leviticus 26:16 I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.

Deuteronomy 28:30-33,51 Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof. . . .

Job 31:8 Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.

Isaiah 65:21,22 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them. . . .

Micah 6:15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine.

Amalekites

Judges 3:13 And he joined to him the children of Ammon, and Amalec: and he went and overthrew Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.

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Judges 6:33 Now all Madian, and Amalec, and the eastern people, were gathered together, and passing over the Jordan, camped in the valley of Jezrael.

Judges 7:12 But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.

Judges 8:10 But Zebee and Salmana were resting with all their army. For fifteen thousand men were left of all the troops of the eastern people, and one hundred and twenty thousand warriors that drew the sword were slain.

Genesis 29:1 Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.

1 Kings 4:30 And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyptians;

Job 1:3 And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.