Genesis 31:23
And having taken his brethren with him, he pursued after him seven days’ journey, and overtook him on Mount Gilead.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
22But it was told Laban the Syrian on the third day, that Jacob was fled.
Cross References
Genesis 13:8And Abram said to Lot, Let there not be a strife between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren.
Exodus 2:11And it came to pass in that length of time, that Moses having grown, went out to his brethren the sons of Israel: and having noticed their distress, he sees an Egyptian smiting a certain Hebrew of his brethren the children of Israel.
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 →