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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Laban. Every Laban in the Bible

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    Laban

    לָבָן

    Laban, the brother of Rebekah and father of Jacob's wives, Leah and Rachel.

    IllustrationGenesis 29Laban warmly welcomes Jacob after learning that he is his relative.
    verses
    46
    first named
    Genesis 24:29
    last named
    Genesis 46:25
    period
    the Patriarchs
    tribe
    Early Patriarch

    Description

    Who was Laban?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Laban was the son of Bethuel and the brother of Rebekah, Isaac's wife (Gen.24.29). He lived in Paddan Aram, where he welcomed Abraham's servant who sought a wife for Isaac (Gen.24.29-51). Years later, Laban hosted his nephew Israel (or 'Jacob'), who fled from his brother Esau (Gen.27.43; 28.2,5). Laban arranged for Jacob to marry his daughters, Leah and Rachel, in exchange for fourteen years of labor (Gen.29). Laban also gave his maidservants, Zilpah and Bilhah, to Jacob as concubines (Gen.30.9,22). Jacob's wives bore him eleven sons and a daughter while living with Laban (Gen.29.31-30.24; 46.18,25). Laban and Jacob had a tense relationship due to Laban's deception and Jacob's prosperity (Gen.30-31). After Jacob fled with his family, Laban pursued them but ultimately made a covenant with Jacob before departing (Gen.31). Laban is last mentioned when Jacob sent messengers to Esau, stating that he had stayed with Laban (Gen.32.4).

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Laban10 of 24 entities the graph connects to Laban, in 3 groups: kinship 2, company 1, events 7. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.RachelFather of · 8 events · 45 versesLeahFather of · 4 events · 32 versesKinshipIsraelAssociated with · 44 events · 2,578 versesCompanyLORD1 event · 1,004 versesGiving1 event · 602 versesFinding1 event · 127 versesIsaac1 event · 123 versesGilead2 events · 90 versesPresence1 event · 89 versesWife1 event · 70 versesEventsLaban

    The 10 best-attested of 24 are drawn. All 24 are listed below.

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    and 5 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Laban happensAll 2 places the claims about Laban reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Gilead, Paddan. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Laban there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.GileadPaddan
    the PatriarchsAll 2 places the claims about Laban reach

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 46, across 1 book. The name is written 54 times in them.

    1. Genesis46 verses

      24:2924:5025:2027:4328:228:529:529:1029:1329:1429:1529:1629:1929:2129:2229:2429:2529:2629:2930:2530:2730:3430:3630:4030:4231:131:231:1231:1931:2031:2231:2431:2531:2631:3131:3331:3431:3631:4331:4731:4831:5131:5532:446:1846:25

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Isaac’s sending of Israel and Israel, and 1 moreIsaacSon of Abraham; father of Jacob and Esau.via Israel and Leah, and 1 moreTwo Maidservants and Israel’s division of Jacob Children, Two Maidservants, and Maidservant ChildrenTwo Maidservants and Israel’s division of Jacob Children, Two Maidservants, and Maidservant Children is an event attested across 2 verses, connecting 4 pageable entities.via Laban’s sayingSayingSaying is a concept gathering 156 labelled instances in the text.via God WarningWarningWarning is a concept gathering 30 labelled instances in the text.via Isaac’s sending of Israel and BethuelPaddanThe homeland of the patriarchs in Mesopotamiavia Israel’s deception of LabanDeceptionDeception is a concept gathering 17 labelled instances in the text.via Israel’s observationObservationObservation is a concept gathering 7 labelled instances in the text.via Laban’s sending away of IsraelSending AwaySending Away is a concept gathering 17 labelled instances in the text.via Israel’s serviceServiceService is a concept gathering 37 labelled instances in the text.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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