Genèse 31:23

23 Alors il prit ses frères avec lui, et le poursuivit sept journées de marche, et le rejoignit à la montagne de Galaad.

Genèse 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.

Genèse 31:23 In-Context

21 Il s'enfuit donc, lui et tout ce qui lui appartenait; et il se leva, et passa le fleuve, et s'avança vers la montagne de Galaad.

22 Et le troisième jour on rapporta à Laban que Jacob s'était enfui.

23 Alors il prit ses frères avec lui, et le poursuivit sept journées de marche, et le rejoignit à la montagne de Galaad.

24 Mais Dieu vint vers Laban, l'Araméen, dans un songe de la nuit, et lui dit: Garde-toi de rien dire à Jacob, ni en bien, ni en mal.

25 Laban atteignit donc Jacob. Et Jacob avait planté sa tente sur la montagne. Et Laban tendit la sienne avec ses frères sur la montagne de Galaad.