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Key: khaki:verbs.
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BrLXXΕἶπε δὲ αὐτοῖς Ἰακὼβ, ἀδελφοὶ, πόθεν ἐστὲ ὑμεῖς; οἱ δὲ εἶπαν, ἐκ Χαῤῥὰν ἐσμέν. (Eipe de autois Yakōb, adelfoi, pothen este humeis; hoi de eipan, ek Ⱪaɽɽan esmen. )
BrTrAnd Jacob said to them, Brethren, whence are ye? and they said, We are of Charrhan.
ULTThen Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Haran.”
USTJacob asked the shepherds, “My friends, where do you live?” They replied, “We are from the city of Haran.”
BSB § “My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” § “We are from Haran,” they answered.
OEBJacob said to the men, ‘My friends, from where do you come?’ They said, ‘We are from Haran.’
WEBBEJacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” ¶ They said, “We are from Haran.”
JPSAnd Jacob said unto them: 'My brethren, whence are ye?' And they said: 'Of Haran are we.'
ASVAnd Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
DRAAnd he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.
YLTAnd Jacob saith to them, 'My brethren, from whence [are] ye?' and they say, 'We [are] from Haran.'
DrbyAnd Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
RVAnd Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
WbstrAnd Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, We are from Haran.
KJB-1769And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we. (And Jacob said unto them, My brethren/brothers, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we. )
KJB-1611And Iacob said vnto them, My brethren, whence be ye? and they saide, Of Haran are we. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)
BshpsAnd Iacob saide vnto them: My brethren, whence be ye? And they sayde: of Haran are we. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))
GnvaAnd Iaakob sayde vnto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they answered, We are of Haran. (And Yacob said unto them, My brethren/brothers, whence be ye? And they answered, We are of Haran. )
CvdlAnd Iacob sayde vnto them: Brethren, whece be ye? They answered: we are of Haran. (And Yacob said unto them: Brethren, whece be ye? They answered: we are of Haran.)
WyclAnd Jacob seide to the scheepherdis, Brithren, of whennus ben ye? Whiche answeriden, Of Aran. (And Yacob said to the shepherds, Brithren, of whence been ye? Which answered, Of Aran.)
LuthUnd Jakob sprach zu ihnen: Lieben Brüder, wo seid ihr her? Sie antworteten: Wir sind von Haran. (And Yakob spoke to to_them: loved_(one) brothers, where seid you/their/her her? They/She replied: We are from Haran.)
ClVgDixitque ad pastores: Fratres, unde estis? Qui responderunt: De Haran. (And_he_said to pastores: Fratres, whence estis? Who responderunt: De Haran. )
29:2-12 Jacob’s meeting Rachel at the well was providentially timed by the sovereign God who was leading Jacob to fulfillment of the promises (cp. 24:12-20). The well was a reminder of God’s blessing (cp. 16:13-14; 21:19; 26:19-25, 33).
This is a polite, friendly idiom used as a greeting; it does not mean that the shepherds were actually Jacob’s relatives. Many languages have a similar greeting. Alternate translation: “Friends,”
Alternate translation: “They replied to him,” or “They answered him,”
מֵחָרָ֖ן אֲנָֽחְנוּ
from=Ḩārān we
Your translation should not sound like the city of Haran was far away from there; it was nearby. Alternate translation: “We live in the city of Haran.”
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.
