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Ge 29:4 King James And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Jacob said, My brethren--Finding from the shepherds who were reposing there with flocks and who all belonged to Haran, that his relatives in Haran were well and that one of the family was shortly expected, he enquired why they were idling the best part of the day there instead of watering their flocks and sending them back to pasture.
 
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47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.