Genesis 29:4

Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” “We're from Haran,” they replied.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

3The usual practice was that once all the flocks had arrived, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the well and give their sheep water. Then they would put the stone back again.

5“Do you know Laban, Nahor's grandson?” he asked. “Yes, we know him,” they replied.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:10Then the servant arranged for ten of his master's camels to carry all kinds of valuable gifts from Abraham and left for the town of Nahor in Aram-naharaim.

Genesis 28:10In the meantime Jacob had set off from Beersheba on his way to Haran.

Acts 7:4So he left the country of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. After his father's death, God sent him here to this country where you now live.

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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