Genesis 29:5

And he says to them, “Have you known Laban, son of Nahor?” And they say, “We have known.”

Literal Standard Version

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 says to them, “My brothers, where [are] you from?” And they say, “We [are] from Haran.”

6And he says to them, “Does he have peace?” And they say, “Peace; and behold, his daughter Rachel is coming with the flock.”

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Cross References

Genesis 24:24And she says to him, “I [am] daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, whom she has borne to Nahor.”

Genesis 31:53the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, judges between us—the God of their father,” and Jacob swears 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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