4Jacob said to them, |My relatives, where are you from?| They said, |We are from Haran.|


In Context

1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

2 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.

3 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.

4 Jacob said to them, |My relatives, where are you from?| They said, |We are from Haran.|

5 He said to them, |Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?| They said, |We know him.|

6 He said to them, |Is it well with him?| They said, |It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.|

Genesis 29:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

29:4Jacob asked the shepherds, "My brothers, where are you from?" "We're from Haran," they replied.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

29:4And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:4And Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:4And Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, We are from Haran.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

29:4And Jacob saith to them, 'My brethren, from whence are ye?' and they say, 'We are from Haran.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:4And Jacob said to them, My brothers, from where be you? And they said, Of Haran are we.