Genesis 31:22

And on the third day Laban had news of Jacob's flight.

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In The King James Version

And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

In Context

21So he went away with all he had, and went across the River in the direction of the hill-country of Gilead.

23And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:5And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us?

Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:18-25

17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the… Read the whole commentary →

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