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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 31:23
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he took his brethren with him, etc.] Some of his relations, the descendants of his father’s brethren, the sons of Nahor, of whom there were seven, besides Bethuel; and who all perhaps lived in Haran the city of Nahor, (see <012220>Genesis 22:20-24); or some of his neighbours and acquaintance whom he might call to: and pursued after him seven days’ journey; which must be reckoned, not from Jacob’s departure from Haran, but from Laban’s; for Laban being three days’ journey from thence, whither he had to return, after he received the news of Jacob being gone; Jacob must have travelled six days before Laban set out with his brethren from Haran; so that this was, as Ben Gerson conjectures, the thirteenth day of Jacob’s travel; for Laban not having cattle to drive as Jacob, could travel as fast again as he, and do that in seven days which took up Jacob thirteen: and they overtook him in the mount Gilead; said to be three hundred and eighty miles from Haran f1515.
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