Genesi 31:23

23 Allora egli prese seco i suoi fratelli, e lo perseguì per sette giornate di cammino; e lo raggiunse al monte di Galaad.

Genesi 31:23 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 31:23

And he took his brethren with him
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 ( 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 ^F5.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Bunting's Travels, p. 72.

Genesi 31:23 In-Context

21 Egli adunque se ne fuggì, con tutto quello ch’egli avea; e si levò, e passò il Fiume, e si dirizzò verso il monte di Galaad.

22 E il terzo giorno appresso fu rapportato a Labano, che Giacobbe se n’era fuggito.

23 Allora egli prese seco i suoi fratelli, e lo perseguì per sette giornate di cammino; e lo raggiunse al monte di Galaad.

24 Ma Iddio venne a Labano, Sirio, in sogno di notte, e gli disse: Guardati che tu non venga a parole con Giacobbe, nè in bene, nè in male.

25 Labano adunque raggiunse Giacobbe. E Giacobbe avea tesi i suoi padiglioni in sul monte; e Labano, co’ suoi fratelli, tese parimente i suoi nel monte di Galaad.