Genesis 29:29

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Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

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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” refers to the region or city in upper Mesopotamia where Laban’s household lived, east of Canaan; “the East” broadly denotes the lands eastward from the promised land. These locations matter because Jacob’s marriage into Laban’s family occurs outside Canaan, within Abraham’s wider kinship line.

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Genesis 29:29 mentions East and Haran.