And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
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Gill's Exposition
Then Laban overtook Jacob,.... He was come to the mount the overnight, but now in the morning he came nearer to him, so as to hold a conversation with him:
now Jacob had pitched his tent in the…
- 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,…
The Pursuit of Laban, &c.
23. his brethren i.e. the men of his kindred and clan, as in Gen 31:31; Gen 31:31. Jacob is similarly attended; cf. Gen 31:31; Gen 31:31; Gen 31:31, Gen 24:60.
seven days"…
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