Genesis 31:20

And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

In Context

19Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

21So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

Deuteronomy 26:5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God: 'A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:18-25

17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the… Read the whole commentary →

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