Genesis 29:5

And he said to them, Know ye Laban, son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said: From haran, are we.

6And he said to them, Is it well with him? And they said, Well, but lo! Rachel his daughter, coming in with the sheep.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:24And she said unto him, Daughter of Bethuel, am, I,—[Bethuel] son of Milcah whom she bare to Nahor.

Genesis 31:53The Gods of Abraham and the Gods of Nahor judge betwixt us—the Gods of their fathers. And Jacob sware by the Dread of his father Isaac:

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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