Gen 29:18-30, 30:33-40, 31:38, 1Cor 15:10, 2Cor 11:26 | TSK | STEP | loved. I will serve.In ancient times, it was a custom among many nations to give dowries for their wives; but Jacob, being poor, offered for Rachel seven year's service.

‏ Genesis 29:18-30

loved.

I will serve.In ancient times, it was a custom among many nations to give dowries for their wives; but Jacob, being poor, offered for Rachel seven year's service.

31:41; 34:12; Ex 22:16,17; 2Sa 3:14; Ho 3:2; 12:12

Ps 12:2; Isa 6:5,11

A.M. 2251. B.C. 1753. served.

30:26; Ho 12:12

for the love.

24:67; So 8:6,7; 1Co 13:7; 2Co 5:14; Eph 5:2

Give me.

Mt 1:18

my days.

18,20; 31:41

go in.

4:1; 38:16; Jud 15:1

and made.

Jud 14:10-18; Ru 4:10-13; Mt 22:2-10; 25:1-10; Joh 2:1-10; Re 19:9

brought her.

24:65; 38:14,15; Mic 7:5

Zilpah.

16:1; 24:59; 30:9-12; 46:18

in the morning.

1Co 3:13

wherefore.

27:35,36; Jud 1:7; Pr 11:31; Mt 7:2,12; Joh 21:17; Re 3:19

country. Heb. place.

week.

2:2,3; 8:10-12; Le 18:18; Jud 14:10,12; Mal 2:15; 1Ti 6:10

we will.

fulfilled her week.The public marriage feast made on this occasion, seems to have formed the regular method of recognising the marriage, and lasted seven days: it would therefore have been improper to have broken off the solemnities to which all the men of the place had been invited (ver. 22) and probably Laban wished to keep the fraud from the public eye. It is perfectly plain that Jacob did not serve seven years more before he got Rachel to wife.

Bilhah.

24; 30:3-8; 35:22,25; 37:2

he loved.

20,31; 44:20,27; De 21:15; Mt 6:24; 10:37; Lu 14:26; Joh 12:25

served.

18; 30:25,26; 31:15,41; 1Sa 18:17-27; Ho 12:12

‏ Genesis 30:33-40

righteousness.

31:37; 1Sa 26:23; 2Sa 22:21; Ps 37:6

answer.

Isa 59:12

in time to come. Heb. to-morrow.

Ex 13:14

that shall be.Supply the ellipsis by inserting "if found," after "stolen," and the sense will be clear.

Nu 22:29; 1Co 7:7; 14:5; Ga 5:12

he removed.From this it appears, that, as Jacob had agreed to take all the parti-coloured for his wages, and was now only beginning to act upon this agreement, and consequently had as yet no right to any of the cattle, therefore Laban separated from the flock all such cattle as Jacob might afterwards claim in consequence of his bargain, leaving only the black and white with Jacob.

the hand.

31:9

Jacob.

31:9-13

green poplar.{Livneh} is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness of its leaves, bark, and wood, from {lavan} to be white.

hasel.Jerome, Hiller, Celsius, Dr. Shaw, Bochart, and other learned men, say, that {luz} is not the "hazel" but the almond-tree, as the word denotes both in Arabic and Syriac.

chestnut tree.The Heb. word {armon,} signifies "the plane-tree," so called from the bark naturally peeling off, and leaving the trunk naked, as its root {aram,} signifies.

Eze 31:8

brought forth.

31:9-12,38,40,42; Ex 12:35,36