Genesis 29:5

Then he sayd vnto them, Know ye Laban the sonne of Nahor? Who said, We know him.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 Iaakob sayde vnto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they answered, We are of Haran.

6Againe he sayd vnto them, Is he in good health? And they answered, He is in good health, and beholde, his daughter Rahel commeth with the sheepe.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:24Then she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the sonne of Milcah whom she bare vnto Nahor.

Genesis 31:53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nabor, and the God of their father be iudge betweene vs: But Iaakob sware by the feare of his father Izhak.

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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