Genesis 31:23

31:23 So he took his relatives ¹  with him and pursued Jacob ²  for seven days. ³  He caught up with ⁴  him in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:47

31:47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, ⁵  but Jacob called it Galeed. ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “his brothers.”

² tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “and he pursued after him a journey of seven days.”

⁴ tn Heb “drew close to.”

⁵ sn Jegar Sahadutha. Laban the Aramean gave the place an Aramaic name which means “witness pile” or “the pile is a witness.”

⁶ sn Galeed also means “witness pile” or “the pile is a witness,” but this name is Canaanite or Western Semitic and closer to later Hebrew. Jacob, though certainly capable of speaking Aramaic, here prefers to use the western dialect.