And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
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Gill's Exposition
So he fled with all that he had,.... His wives, his children, cattle and substance:
and he rose up, and passed over the river; the river Euphrates, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it, which lay…
- Jacob’s Flight from Haran 19. תרפים terāpı̂ym, Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the Pentateuch. It is…
Here is, I. Jacob's flight from Laban. We may suppose he had been long considering of it, and casting about in his mind respecting it; but when now, at last, God had given him positive orders to go,…
Cambridge Bible
stole away, &c. Heb. stole the heart of Laban the Aramean. Cf. Gen 31:31. Jacob outwitted Laban; fled secretly, and got three days" start. For the phrase, cf. the Greek κλέπτειν νοῦν, "to steal the…