22And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. …
And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? …
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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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