Chuàngshìjì 31:23

23 Lābān daìlǐng tāde zhòng dìxiōng qù zhuīgǎn , zhuī le qī rì , zaì Jīliè shān jiù zhuī shàng le .

Chuàngshìjì 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.

Chuàngshìjì 31:23 In-Context

21 Jiù daì zhe suǒyǒude taópǎo . tā qǐshēn guò dà hé , miàn xiàng Jīliè shān xíng qù .

22 Dào dì sān rì , yǒu rén gàosu Lābān , Yǎgè taópǎo le .

23 Lābān daìlǐng tāde zhòng dìxiōng qù zhuīgǎn , zhuī le qī rì , zaì Jīliè shān jiù zhuī shàng le .

24 Yè jiàn , shén dào Yàlán rén Lābān nàli , zaì mèng zhōng duì tā shuō , nǐ yào xiǎoxīn , bùkĕ yǔ Yǎgè shuō hǎo shuō dǎi .

25 Lābān zhuī shàng Yǎgè . Yǎgè zaì shān shàng zhī dā zhàngpéng . Lābān hé tāde zhòng dìxiōng yĕ zaì Jīliè shān shàng zhī dā zhàngpéng .