Genesis 29:5

And he said unto them, Know ye Lavan ben Nachor? And they said, We know him.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Ya'akov said unto them, My brethren, where are you from? And they said, Of Charan are we.

6And he said unto them, Is the shalom with him? And they said, Shalom; and, hinei, Rachel his bat cometh with the tzon.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:24And she said unto him, I am Bat Betuel Ben Milcah, the ben which she bore unto Nachor.

Genesis 31:53The Elohei Avraham, and Elohei Nachor, Elohei Avihem judge between us. And Ya'akov swore by the Pachad Aviv Yitzchak.

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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