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Genesis 28:10
Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records Jacob’s physical departure from Beersheba following Isaac’s blessing and Rebekah’s instruction, immediately after Esau marries Ishmael’s daughter. The words — וַיֵּצֵא (va-yēṣēʾ) means “and he went out/left,” and חָרָן (Charan) names the destination city. The thread — The route to Haran connects to Terah’s family settling there in Genesis 11:31, echoes in Jacob’s later reflection on the journey’s hardship in Genesis 32:10, and sits within the broader patriarchal migration traced in Acts 7:2. Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to see that covenant promise immediately demands physical movement, marking the concrete step from divine declaration to the journey that will test and fulfill it.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Jacob went out from Beer–sheba, and went toward Haran.
Cross-references
- Acts 7:2 And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
- Genesis 11:31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- Genesis 32:10 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
- Hosea 12:12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
- Acts 25:13 After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.