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2 9 : J A C O B
L E A V E S
CHAPTER 29:
Jacob’s Flight With His
Family: His Covenant
With Laban
(29:1-12; cf. Gen, 31)
1 And it came to pass when
Rachel had borne Joseph, that
Laban went to shear his sheep;
for they were distant from him
a three days’ journey. 2 And
Jacob saw that Laban was
going to shear his sheep, and
Jacob called Leah and Rachel,
and spake kindly unto them
that they should come with
him to the land of Canaan.
3 For he told them how he had
seen everything in a dream,
even all that He had spoken
unto him that he should return
to his father’s house; and they
said: “To every place whither
thou goest we will go with
thee.” 4 And Jacob blessed
the Elohim of Isaac his father,
and the Elohim of Abraham
his father’s father, and he
arose and mounted his wives
So LXX and his children, and took all
(Gn. 31:20)
and Targ. his possessions and crossed
Onkelos; but
MT Sam., the river, and came to the land
Vulg., ‘’stole”
(the heart of of Gilead, and Jacob hid his
Laban).
intention from Laban and told
him not. 5 And in the seventh
2135 A.M.
year of the fourth week Jacob
turned (his face) toward
Gilead in the first month, on
the twenty-first thereof. And
L A B A N
Laban pursued after him
and overtook Jacob in the
mountain of Gilead in the
third month, on the thirteenth
thereof. 6 And Yahuah did
not suffer him to injure Jacob;
for He appeared to him in a
dream by night. And Laban Sivan 15 is
spake to Jacob, 7 And on the Shavuot/
Pentecost
fifteenth of those days Jacob which Jacob
celebrated
made a feast for Laban, and long before
Moses.
for all who came with him,
and Jacob sware to Laban that
day, and Laban also to Jacob,
that neither should cross the
mountain of Gilead to the
other with evil purpose. 8 And
he made there a heap for a
Gn. 31:47
witness; wherefore the name Cf.
(“Galeed”
“Heap of
of that place is called: “The =Witness”).
Heap of Witness,” after this
heap. 9 But before they used
to call the land of Gilead the
land of the Rephaim; for it Cf. Gn. 14:5
At least
was the land of the Rephaim, 15 ft. – 10
tall in
and the Rephaim were born ft.estimation.
are
(there), giants whose height These
Nephilim.
is why
was ten, nine, eight down to This
Israel was
to wipe
seven cubits. 10 And their told
out even
habitation was from the land the women,
children and
of the children of Ammon animals of
certain tribes
to Mount Hermon, and the in Canaan.
They were
seats of their kingdom were not human.
of
Karnaim and Ashtaroth, and InGn.MT14:5,
Edrei, and Mîsûr, and Beon. Asherothkarnaim is
11 And Yahuah destroyed one place;
but Syr.
them because of the evil of and some
MSS. of LXX
their deeds; for they were support our
text.
very malignant, and the Cf. Dt. 3:10
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