Genesis 29:4
Jacob said to the men, “My friends, from where do you come?” They said, “We are from Haran.”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
In Context
5Then he said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”
Cross References
Genesis 24:10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and set out with precious gifts from his master. So he went to the town of Aram-naharaim, where Nahor lived.
Genesis 28:10Then Jacob set out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
Acts 7:4And so Abraham left the country of the Chaldaeans and settled in Haran; and from there, after his father’s death, God caused him to migrate into this country, in which 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 →