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20And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

Genesis 31:20

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-24)

Here is, I. Jacob’s flight from Laban. We may suppose he had been long considering of it, and casting about in his mind respecting it; but when now, at last, God had given him positive orders to go, he made no delay, nor was he disobedient to the heavenly vision. The first opportunity that offered itself he laid hold of, when Laban was shearing his sheep (Gen. 31:19), that part of his flock which…

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