Laban:
white. (1.) The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sister Rebekah was Isaac's wife (In Gen 24). Jacob, one of the sons of this marriage, fled to the house of Laban, whose daughters Leah and Rachel (T0001945.) Gen 29) he eventually married. (See JACOB.)
(2.) A city in the Arabian desert in the route of the Israelites (Deu 1:1), probably identical with Libnah (Num 33:20).
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