Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 12:12:

• Kupsabiny: “Jacob fled to the land of Aram.
  (He) worked there to obtain a wife.
  (He) looked after sheep in order to get that wife.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Jacob escaped to the land of Aram.
  Israel served to get a wife,
  and for a wife, he tended sheep.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘Jacob fled to Aram, and there he served as a care-taker of the animals so-that he could-possess/have his wife-to-be.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Your ancestor Jacob fled from his brother Esau
  and went to northwest Mesopotamia.
  He worked for his uncle Laban for many years to get a wife;
  he took care of his uncle’s sheep to pay for her.” (Source: Translation for Translators)