Genesis 35:21
Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Egressus inde, fixit tabernaculum trans Turrem gregis.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Genesis 35:16
- Ἀπάρας δὲ Ἰακὼβ ἐκ Βαιθὴλ ἔπηξεν τὴν σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ ἐπέκεινα τοῦ πύργου Γάδερ. ἐγένετο δὲ ἡνίκα ἤγγισεν χαβραθὰ εἰς γῆν ἐλθεῖν Ἐφράθα, ἔτεκεν Ῥαχήλ· καὶ ἐδυστόκησεν ἐν τῷ τοκετῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּסַּ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיֵּ֣ט אָֽהֳלֹ֔ה מֵהָ֖לְאָה לְמִגְדַּל עֵֽדֶר
Haydock's commentary
Tower. Hebrew, Heder, about a mile to the east of Bethlehem, where the angels appeared to announce the birth of Christ. St. Helen built a temple there in honour of the angels. (Tirinus)
Shepherds had such places to keep watch. (Calmet)
There was a tower of this name near Jerusalem. (Micheas iv. 8; St. Jerome, q. His.)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Eustochium
After this Paula went a short distance down the hill to the tower of Edar, that is ‘of the flock,’ near which Jacob fed his flocks, and where the shepherds keeping watch by night were privileged to hear the words: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.” While they were keeping their sheep they found the Lamb of God; whose fleece bright and clean was made wet with the dew of heaven when it was dry upon all the earth beside, and whose blood when sprinkled on the doorposts drove off the destroyer of Egypt and took away the sins of the world.