Genesis 31:20

A Conservative Version

And Jacob slipped away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled.

Cross References

Genesis 25:20

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

Genesis 31:21

So he fled with all that he had. And he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

Genesis 31:27

Why did thou flee secretly, and creep away from me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,

Deuteronomy 26:5

And thou shall answer and say before LORD thy God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number. And he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.