John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 31:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So he fled with all that he had, etc.] 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 between Mesopotamia and Canaan; and set his face [toward] the mount Gilead: he travelled and bent his course that way: this, was a mountain on the border of the land of Canaan, adjoining to Lebanon, near which was a very fruitful country, which had its name from it: it is so called here by way of anticipation; for this name was afterwards given it from the heap of stones here laid, as a witness of the agreement between Laban and Jacob, (<013145>Genesis 31:45).

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