Genesis 28:10

"And [he] left" — It was only necessary to write "And Jacob travelled to Charan", so why does it mention his departure? It tells us that the departure of a righteous person from a place makes a mark, because when a righteous person is in a city, he is its glory, he is its radiance, he is its beauty. When he leaves there, the glory departs, the radiance departs, the beauty departs. And similarly (in Ruth 1) "and she left from the place" which is said about Naomi and Ruth.

"And he travelled to Charan" — he left to travel to Charan.

Five miracles were wrought for our father Jakob at the time that he went forth from Beersheba. The first sign: the hours of the day were shortened, and the sun went down before his time, forasmuch as the Word had desired to speak with him. The second sign: the four stones which Jakob had set for his pillow he found in the morning, had become one stone. Sign the third: the Stone which, when all the flocks were assembled, they rolled from the mouth of the well, he rolled away with one of his arms. The fourth sign: the well overflowed, and the water rose to the edge of it, and continued to overflow all the days that he was in Haran. The fifth sign: the country was shortened before him, so that in one day he went forth and came to Haran.

וילך חרנה, in order to go to Charan.

ויצא יעקב...וילך חרנה. He set out with the destination Charan in his mind. Before he reached this destination the following incidents occurred.

ויצא יעקב מבאר שבע וילך חרנה, it is the custom of Scriptures to first tell us the beginning and the end of something before elaborating on what occurred in the interval. Other examples of this literary style of the Scriptures are found in Genesis 24,10 ויקם וילך אל ארם נהרים, something that did not all occur on the same day. Similarly, we find the phrase צמח בלי יעשה קמח, “it grew without developing into flour,” without mentioning all the intermediary stages before relating the outcome. (Hoseah 8,7) The reason we have such formulations is because the author hastens to get to the point of the story.

ויצא יעקב, “Yaakov departed;” Yaakov is described as if he had been totally alone when leaving his father’s home, although no doubt he had taken along a dowry for his future wife (as had Eliezer at the time). The Torah avoided mentioning this as he was fleeing from the hatred of his brother and did not wish to make his departure public. [I have reconstructed the commentary, as the way it stands, the author claiming that this paragraph had not been written separately from the previous one, does not make sense, as in none of our versions of the Chumash is it not written in the normal manner, leaving space for several words both before and after this paragraph. Ed.]