“ And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid. ”
- 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 )...
Zilpah. See on Genesis 29:29 .
And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid. And Laban gave - Zilpah his maid - Slaves given in this way to a daughter on her marriage, were the peculiar property of the d...
Laban gave—Zilpah, &c.— It appears to have been a very ancient custom, not only among the Hebrews, but with many other nations, and particularly the Greeks and Romans, in the marriages both of...
And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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 Marries Leah and Rachel Genesis 29:21-35 The chief lesson of this paragraph is its illustration of the awful nemesis which accompanies wrongdoing. No thoughtful person can watch the event...
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...
And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid, [for] an handmaid. It was usual to have many given them at this time, as Rebekah seems to have had, Genesis 24:59 ; but Leah had but one, and...
And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid. Ver. 24. Zilpah his maid. ] Who, very likely, was of the conspiracy.
Laban gave unto Leah, Zilpah his maid Sir John Chardin observes, in his MS. note on this verse, “that none but very poor people marry a daughter in the East, without giving her a female slave for a...
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...
Jacob's Marriage. B. C. 1753. 15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brot...
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast, and so it was that in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him, and he went in to her. And Laban gave Zilpa...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 29:23 . He took Leah, his daughter, and brought her to him.] “The fraud was rendered possible by the Eastern custom of the bride being veiled, aided by the darkness of th...
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...
He took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him Laban’s fraud on Jacob I. THE CHARACTER OF THE FRAUD. 1. Deliberate. 2. Bold. 3. Selfish. II. THE FRAUD CONSIDERED AS A RETRIBUTION...
EXPOSITION Genesis 29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob (probably at the month's end), Because thou art —literally, is it not that . thou art (cf. Genesis 27:36 ; 2 Samuel 23:19 )— my br...
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
Zilpah. Genesis 16:1 Genesis 24:59 Genesis 30:9-12 Genesis 46:18