Genesis 31:55
But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons, and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Laban vero de nocte consurgens, osculatus est filios, et filias suas, et benedixit illis : reversusque est in locum suum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀναστὰς δὲ Λαβὰν τὸ πρωὶ κατεφίλησεν τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς θυγατέρας αὐτοῦ, καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτούς· καὶ ἀποστραφεὶς Λαβὰν ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Genesis 32:1
- וַיַּשְׁכֵּ֨ם לָבָ֜ן בַּבֹּ֗קֶר וַיְנַשֵּׁ֧ק לְבָנָ֛יו וְלִבְנוֹתָ֖יו וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֶתְהֶ֑ם וַיֵּ֛לֶךְ וַיָּ֥שָׁב לָבָ֖ן לִמְקֹמֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Night (de nocte) when it was just at an end, and day-light appeared.
His daughters, with Dina, &c. Thus all ended well and in peace, by the divine interposition, after the most serious alarms. (Haydock)
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.