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ULT Then Laban gathered all the people of the place and made a feast.
UST So Laban invited all the local people and held a wedding feast.
BSB § So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.
OEB So Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast.
WEB Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
NET So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.
LSV and Laban gathers all the men of the place, and makes a banquet.
FBV So Laban organized a wedding banquet[fn] and invited everyone around to come.
29:22“A wedding banquet”: the word actually means “a drinking party,” which is probably the only way the deception could have been successful.
T4T So Laban gathered together all the people who lived in that area and made a feast.
LEB So Laban gathered all the men of the place and prepared a feast.
BBE And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast.
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JPS And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
ASV And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
DRA And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the feast, made the marriage.
YLT and Laban gathereth all the men of the place, and maketh a banquet.
DBY And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
RV And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
WBS And Laban assembled all the men of the place, and made a feast.
KJB And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
BB Then Laban gathered together all the men of that place, and made a feast.
GNV Wherefore Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
CB The Laban bad all the people of that place, and made a mariage. (The Laban bad all the people of that place, and made a marriage.)
WYC And whanne many cumpenyes of freendis weren clepid to the feeste, he made weddyngis, (And when many cumpenyes of friendis were called to the feeste, he made weddyngis,)
LUT Da lud Laban alle Leute des Orts und machte ein Hochzeitsmahl. (So lud Laban all Leute the Orts and made a Hochzeitsmahl.)
CLV Qui vocatis multis amicorum turbis ad convivium, fecit nuptias. (Who vocatis multis amicorum turbis to convivium, fecit nuptias. )
BRN And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a marriage-feast.
BrLXX Συνήγαγε δὲ Λάβαν πάντας τοὺς ἄνδρας τοῦ τόπου, καὶ ἐποίησε γάμον. (Sunaʸgage de Laban pantas tous andras tou topou, kai epoiaʸse gamon. )
29:14-30 Jacob’s joyful prospect of marriage to the lovely Rachel became an occasion for Laban’s shrewdness and Jacob’s discipline. Jacob and his mother had deceived his father and brother to gain the blessing; now his mother’s brother deceived him. Jacob received a dose of his own duplicity through twenty years of labor, affliction, and deception in Laban’s service (31:38). In God’s justice, people harvest what they plant (Gal 6:7). Laban’s deception was perfectly designed to make Jacob aware of his own craftiness. God often brings people into the lives of believers to discipline them. But Jacob was tenacious, and God blessed him abundantly with a large family and many possessions (30:25-43) during this time of service.
and,gathered Lāⱱān DOM all/each/any/every men_of the,place and=he/it_made feast
Consider what is the best way to order these events in your language. Alternate translation: “Then Laban gathered all the local people and held a wedding feast.” or “Then Laban prepared a marriage feast and invited everyone who lived in town to attend.”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
