Genesis 29:5

And he said to them, Have you any knowledge of Laban, the son of Nahor? And they said, We have.

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In The King James Version

And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

In Context

4Then Jacob said to the herdmen, My brothers, where do you come from? And they said, From Haran.

6And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:24And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's wife.

Genesis 31:53May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.

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 →

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