Genesis 29:4

“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

5“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.

Genesis 28:10Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

Acts 7:4So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.

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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