Genesis 29:14

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Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.

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The Journeys of Abraham and the PatriarchsThe journeys of Abraham and the patriarchs from Ur through Canaan and into Egypt.

Canaan in the Patriarchal AgeCanaan during the patriarchal period, before the Israelite conquest.

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“Haran” was a city in upper Mesopotamia, likely in the region of modern southeastern Turkey, where Abraham’s relatives had settled. Jacob had come from the land of Canaan to this eastern homeland of his mother’s family, so Laban’s recognition of him as “my bone and my flesh” confirms their kinship.

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Genesis 29:14 mentions East and Haran.