Genesis 31:22 On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

English Standard Version
When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,

New American Standard Bible
When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,

King James Bible
And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

International Standard Version
Three days later, somebody reported to Laban that Jacob had left,

American Standard Version
And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob fled.

Darby Bible Translation
And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled.

Young's Literal Translation
And it is told to Laban on the third day that Jacob hath fled,

Cross References

Genesis 31:21
So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

Genesis 31:23
And he took his brothers with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

31:22-35 God can put a bridle in the mouth of wicked men, to restrain their malice, though he do not change their hearts. Though they have no love to God's people, they will pretend to it, and try to make a merit of necessity. Foolish Laban! to call those things his gods which could be stolen! Enemies may steal our goods, but not our God. Here Laban lays to Jacob's charge things that he knew not. Those who commit their cause to God, are not forbidden to plead it themselves with meekness and fear. When we read of Rachel's stealing her father's images, what a scene of iniquity opens! The family of Nahor, who left the idolatrous Chaldees; is this family itself become idolatrous? It is even so. The truth seems to be, that they were like some in after-times, who sware by the Lord and by Malcham, Zep 1:5; and like others in our times, who wish to serve both God and mammon. Great numbers will acknowledge the true God in words, but their hearts and houses are the abodes of spiritual idolatry. When a man gives himself up to covetousness, like Laban, the world is his god; and he has only to reside among gross idolaters in order to become one, or at least a favourer of their abominations.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Ge 31:22-55. Laban Pursues Jacob—Their Covenant at Gilead.

22-24. it was told Laban on the third day—No sooner did the news reach Laban than he set out in pursuit, and he being not encumbered, advanced rapidly; whereas Jacob, with a young family and numerous flocks, had to march slowly, so that he overtook the fugitives after seven days' journey as they lay encamped on the brow of mount Gilead, an extensive range of hills forming the eastern boundary of Canaan. Being accompanied by a number of his people, he might have used violence had he not been divinely warned in a dream to give no interruption to his nephew's journey. How striking and sudden a change! For several days he had been full of rage, and was now in eager anticipation that his vengeance would be fully wreaked, when lo! his hands are tied by invisible power (Ps 76:10). He did not dare to touch Jacob, but there was a war of words.