Genesis 31:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ So he took his kinsfolk with him and pursued him for seven days until he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ So he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after [Jacob] for seven days, and they overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

Common English Bible

²³ so Laban took his brothers with him, chased Jacob for seven days, and caught up with him in the mountains of Gilead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And taking his brothers with him, he pursued him for seven days. And he overtook him at Mount Gilead.

Genesis 31:23 Cross References

Exodus 2:13

When he went out the next day, he saw two Hebrews fighting, and he said to the one who was in the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow Hebrew?”

Exodus 2:11

One day after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Genesis 24:27

and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the way to the house of my master’s kin.”

Genesis 13:8

Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me and between your herders and my herders, for we are kindred.

Genesis 31:22

On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad.”