וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ יַעֲקֹ֔ב אַחַ֖י מֵאַ֣יִן אַתֶּ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ מֵחָרָ֖ן אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃
Lalu Yakub berkata kepada mereka, “Saudara-saudaraku, dari manakah kalian?” Jawab mereka, “Kami dari Haran.”
On the Migration of Abraham
[213] For instance, when the trainer of self inquires “Whence are ye?” the shepherds answer truly “from Haran” (Gen. 29:4); for the irrational faculties come from sense-perception, as do the rational from understanding. When he further inquires whether they know Laban, they naturally say that they know him (Gen. 29:5): for sense-perception is familiar, so it imagines, with every colour and every quality, and Laban is the symbol of colours and varieties of quality.