Genesis 29:4
And he said to the shepherds, “Brothers, where are you from?” And they answered. “From Haran.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 questioning them, he said, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”
Cross References
Genesis 24:10And he took ten camels from his lord’s herd, and he went forth, carrying with him things from all of his goods. And he set out, and continued on, to the city of Nahor, in Mesopotamia.
Genesis 28:10Meanwhile Jacob, having departed from Beersheba, continued on to Haran.
Acts 7:4Then he went away from the land of the Chaldeans, and he lived at Haran. And later, after his father was dead, God brought him into this land, in which you now dwell.
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 →