Genesis Chapter 31 verse 21 Holy Bible
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.
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So he went away with all he had, and went across the River in the direction of the hill-country of Gilead.
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And he fled with all that he had; and he rose up and passed over the river, and set his face [toward] mount Gilead.
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So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
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So he fled with all that he had; and he arose, and passed over the river, and set his face towards the mount Gilead.
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So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
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and he fleeth, he and all that he hath, and riseth, and passeth over the River, and setteth his face `toward' the mount of Gilead.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - So (literally, and) he fled with (literally, and) all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, - i.e. the Euphrates, which was called by preeminence the river (cf. 1 Kings 4:21; Ezra 4:10, 16) - and set his face toward the mount Gilead. גִּלְעַד, according to Gesenius, "the hard, stony region," from an unused quadrilateral root, signifying to be hard, though, according to the historian (by a slight change in the punctuation), "The hill, or heap of witness," from the transaction recorded in verses 45-47, which name it here proleptically receives, was not the mountain-range to the south of the Jahbok, now styled Jebel Jilad (Gesenius), Jebel-as-Salt (Robinson), Jebel-osha (Tristram), since Jacob had not yet crossed the river, but that upon its northern hank, called Jebel Ajlun, and situated near Mahanaim (Delitzsch, Keil, Kalisch, Porter). CHAPTER 31:22-44
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) The river.--The Euphrates.Mount Gilead.--Gilead, the region of rock, was the mountainous frontier between the Aramean and Canaanite races. The form of the word is so remote from ordinary Hebrew that we have in it, probably, a very old appellation of this region; and Jacob apparently plays upon it in his name Galeed (Genesis 31:47).