Genesis 31:54
Good News Translation
He killed an animal, which he offered as a sacrifice on the mountain, and he invited his men to the meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

New Revised Standard Version
and Jacob offered a sacrifice on the height and called his kinsfolk to eat bread; and they ate bread and tarried all night in the hill country.

Contemporary English Version
Jacob killed an animal and offered it as a sacrifice there on the mountain, and he invited his men to eat with him. After the meal they spent the night on the mountain.

New American Bible
He then offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his kinsmen to share in the meal. When they had eaten, they passed the night on the mountain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:

offered sacrifice.

Genesis 21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.

Genesis 26:30 And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:

Genesis 37:25 And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.

Exodus 18:12 So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with him before God.

2 Samuel 3:20,21 And he came to David in Hebron with twenty men: and David made a feast for Abner, and his men that came with him. . . .

Context
Jacob's Covenant with Laban
53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac: 54And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:55But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.…
Cross References
Exodus 18:12
So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with him before God.

1 Samuel 9:12
They answered and said to them: He is: behold he is before you, make haste now: for he came to day into the city, for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place.

Ezekiel 44:3
For the prince. The prince himself shall sit in it, to eat bread before the Lord: he shall enter in by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.

Genesis 31:53
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