Genesis 28:10
And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
KJV
Igitur egressus Jacob de Bersabee, pergebat Haran.
Vulgate
Καὶ ἐξῆλθεν Ἰακὼβ ἀπὸ τοῦ φρέατος τοῦ ὅρκου, καὶ ἐπορεύθη εἰς Χαρράν.
LXX
And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
ASV
וַ/יֵּצֵ֥א יַעֲקֹ֖ב מִ/בְּאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע וַ/יֵּ֖לֶךְ חָרָֽנָ/ה
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בְּאֵ֣ר
b'r
proper_noun · 68×
חָרָ֖ן
chrn
proper_noun · 12×
יַעֲקֹ֖ב
y'qb
proper_noun · 346×
יֵּ֥לֶךְ
ylk
verb · 1038×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
Historic Christian voices
8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2573God renews his promise to Jacob, the ancestor of the twelve tribes of Israel.17 Before confronting his elder brother Esau, Jacob wrestles all night with a mysterious figure who refuses to reveal his name, but he blesses him before leaving him at dawn. From this account, the spiritual tradition of the Church has retained the symbol of prayer as a battle of faith and as the trium…
Chapter 38.—Of Jacob’s Mission to Mesopotamia to Get a Wife, and of the Vision Which He Saw in a Dream by the Way, and of His Getting Four Women When He Sought One Wife. Jacob was sent by his parents to Mesopotamia that he might take a wife there. These were his father’s words on sending him: “Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Canaanites. Arise, fly to Mesopota…
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth. Jacob's vision of the ladder reaching from earth to heaven is a representation of Christ as the Mediator, through whom alone there is intercourse between God and men. The angels ascending and descending signify the ministry of divine providence. The promise that in Jacob's seed all families of the earth would be blessed i…
Covers Jacob and Esau, Joseph's rise in Egypt, the famine, Jacob's family settling in Goshen, the enslavement of Israel, the birth and early life of Moses, the ten plagues, and the Exodus from Egypt including the crossing of the Red Sea.
Cross-references
- Acts 7:2 — And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
- Gen 11:31 — And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
- Gen 25:27 — And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
- Gen 29:4 — And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
- Gen 32:10 — I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
- Gen 35:1 — And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
- Gen 46:1 — And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
- Ps 139:3 — Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.