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What does Genesis 29:5 mean?
"He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”"
— Genesis 29:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.
There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.
Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”
He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”
He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”
He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”
They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.”
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