Genesis 29:5

And he said to them, Know ye Laban, the son of Nachor? and they said, We do know him.

Brenton Septuagint

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

4And Jacob said to them, Brethren, whence are ye? and they said, We are of Charrhan.

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

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Cross References

Genesis 24:24And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bathuel the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.

Genesis 31:53The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore 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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