Genesis 29:4
Then Jacob said to the herdmen, My brothers, where do you come from? And they said, From Haran.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
In Context
5And he said to them, Have you any knowledge of Laban, the son of Nahor? And they said, We have.
Cross References
Genesis 24:10And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.
Genesis 28:10So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.
Acts 7:4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:
Matthew Henry on Genesis 29:2-9
Jacob's Arrival at Padan-aram. ( b. c. 1760.) 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. 2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth. 3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place. 4 And Jacob said… Read the whole commentary →