And Laban said to him, surely thou [art] my bone and my flesh,.... Nearly allied in blood, being his sister's son:
and he abode with him the space of a month; or "a month of days" m, a full month to a day; all this while feeding his flocks, and doing whatsoever service he had for him to do.
m חדש ימים "mensem dierum", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, Schmidt.