Genesis 29:4
And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 asked them, saying: Know you Laban the son of Nachor? They said: We know him.
Cross References
Genesis 24:10And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forth and went on to Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor.
Genesis 28:10But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.
Acts 7:4Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein 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 →