Genesis 29:4
And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque ad pastores : Fratres, unde estis ? Qui responderunt : De Haran.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἶπεν δὲ αὐτοῖς Ἰακώβ Ἀδελφοί, πόθεν ἐστὲ ὑμεῖς; οἱ δὲ εἶπαν Ἐκ Χαρράν ἐσμεν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ יַעֲקֹ֔ב אַחַ֖י מֵאַ֣יִן אַתֶּ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ מֵחָרָ֖ן אֲנָֽחְנוּ
Haydock's commentary
Brethren. Jacob understands and speaks their language, either because it was not very different from his own, or he had learnt the Chaldean language from his mother. In the days of Ezechias, the Jews did not understand it. (4 Kings xviii. 26; Jeremias v. 15.) (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.