Genesis 29:4

And Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.

In Context

3And when all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the mouth of the well in its place.

5And he said to them, Do ye know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We do know [him].

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Cross References

Genesis 24:10And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; now all the treasure of his master was under his hand; and he arose and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

Genesis 28:10And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went towards Haran.

Acts 7:4Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which *ye* 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 →

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