Genesis 29:5

He asked them, “Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?” They replied, “Yes, we know him.”

Translation for Translators

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

4On that day, Jacob asked the shepherds who were sitting there, “Where are you from?” They replied, “We are from Haran.”

6Jacob asked them, “Is Laban well?” They replied, “Yes, he is well. Look! Here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep!”

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Cross References

Genesis 24:24She replied, “My father’s name is Bethuel. He is the son of Nahor and his wife Milcah.

Genesis 31:53We will ask the God whom your grandfather Abraham and his father Nahor worshiped to punish [MTY] either one of us, if we harm the other one.” So Jacob solemnly promised to do what they said in their peace agreement. And he asked God, the one before whom his father Isaac trembled, to listen to what they promised.

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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