Gênesis 31:23

23 Então, tomando consigo seus irmãos, seguiu atrás de Jacó jornada de sete dias; e alcançou-o na montanha de Gileade.

Gênesis 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.

Gênesis 31:23 In-Context

21 e fugiu com tudo o que era seu; e, levantando-se, passou o Rio, e foi em direção � montanha de Gileade.

22 Ao terceiro dia foi Labão avisado de que Jacó havia fugido.

23 Então, tomando consigo seus irmãos, seguiu atrás de Jacó jornada de sete dias; e alcançou-o na montanha de Gileade.

24 Mas Deus apareceu de noite em sonho a Labão, o arameu, e disse-lhe: Guardate, que não fales a Jacó nem bem nem mal.

25 Alcançou, pois, Labão a Jacó. Ora, Jacó tinha armado a sua tenda na montanha; armou também Labão com os seus irmãos a sua tenda na montanha de Gileade.