“ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. ”
- Jacob’s Marriage 6. רחל rāchēl , Rachel, “a ewe.” 16. לאה lê'âh , Leah, “wearied.” 24. זלפה zı̂lpâh , Zilpah, “drop?” 29. בלהה bı̂lhâh , Bilhah, “timidity.” 32. ראוּ...
Jacob Serves Seven Years for Rachel. Laban Substitutes Leah and Secures Fourteen Years'service in Exchange for the Two. Apart from bits of P ( Genesis 29:24 ; Genesis 29:28 b , Genesis 29:29 )...
kissed. The Eastern greeting.
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. Jacob kissed Rachel - A simple and pure method by which the primitive inhabitants of the earth testified their friendship to each other, fi...
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. While he yet spake ... Rachel came. Among the pastoral tribes the young unmarried daughters of the gr...
Jacob in Mesopotamia with Laban The divine care and blessing promised to Jacob at Bethel ( Genesis 28:15 ) are illustrated in the narrative of the sojourn of the patriarch at Haran, which apparent...
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC ( Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29 ). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The Tôldôth in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing...
Jacob in Laban's Home Genesis 29:1-20 Well might Jacob lift up his feet! See margin. When we are sure of God we receive strength that enables us to run with patience the race that is set befo...
Pursuing his journey after his experience at Luz, now called Beth-el, Jacob came into "the land of the children of the east." Here the next twenty years of his life were to be spent, during which he...
Brother, here means no more than a relation.
And Jacob kissed Rachel ,.... Which he did in a way of courtesy and civility; this was done after he had acquainted her with his relation to her; he saluted her upon that: and lifted up his voice,...
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. Ver. 11. Lifted up his voice, and wept. ] For joy, that he had so happily lighted upon his kinswoman. It argued also his great affection...
JACOB MEETS RACHEL AND LABAN After many days of travel Jacob came to the land of his relatives. He could not phone to find his directions to their home, nor did he have any street and house number...
Rachel's Humility and Industry. B. C. 1760. 9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel...
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‘And Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father.' The meeting is emo...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 29:1 . Went on his journey.] Heb. Lifted up his feet. (See Psalms 74:3 .) The idea is that he journeyed with alacrity. Rashi , the Jewish commentator, says, “his hear...
Genesis 29:1 . Jacob went on his journey. Our version fails here to express the lively sense of the Hebrew, as in most versions. Levabit pedes; he tripped along with light feet, being now assure...
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east Jacob’s experience on his journey I. THAT GOD’S PRESENCE WITH HIM MADE HIS DUTIES AND HIS TROUBLES LIGHT. He who...
EXPOSITION Genesis 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey (literally, lifted up his feet—a graphic description of traveling. Inspired by new hopes, and conscious of loftier aims than when...
Jacob Meets Rachel
kissed. Genesis 29:13 Genesis 27:26 Genesis 33:4 Genesis 43:30 Genesis 45:2 Genesis 45:14 Genesis 45:15 Exodus 4:27 Exodus 18:7 Romans 16:16 and wept. Genesis 33:4 Genesis 43:3...