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Laban

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sister Rebekah was Isaac’s wife (Gen. 24). Jacob, one of the sons of this marriage, fled to the house of Laban, whose daughters Leah and Rachel (ch. 29) he eventually married.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 46 verses

Genesis
24:29, 24:50, 25:20, 27:43, 28:2, 28:5, 29:5, 29:10, 29:13, 29:14, 29:15, 29:16, 29:19, 29:21, 29:22, 29:24, 29:25, 29:26, 29:29, 30:25, 30:27, 30:34, 30:36, 30:40, 30:42, 31:1, 31:2, 31:12, 31:19, 31:20, 31:22, 31:24, 31:25, 31:26, 31:31, 31:33, 31:34, 31:36, 31:43, 31:47, 31:48, 31:51, 31:55, 32:4, 46:18, 46:25

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.