Genesis 29:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. ”

Genesis 29:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- 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...
Genesis 29:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 )...
Genesis 29:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

we, i.e. I, by Figure of speech Heterosis (of Number).
Genesis 29:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

27. Fulfil her week. Laban now is become callous in wickedness, for he extorts other seven years from his nephew to allow him to marry his other daughter. If he had had ten more daughters, he...
Genesis 29:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. Fulfill her week - The marriage feast, it appears, lasted seven days; it would n...
Genesis 29:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Fulfil her week— i.e.. perfect this marriage with Leah, by keeping the solemnity of seven days feasting, which seems to have been the time allowed for marriage feasts; and this done, thou shalt sol...
Genesis 29:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also, ... i:e., complete wit...
Genesis 29:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 29:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Genesis 29:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Genesis 29:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Genesis 29:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

See Judges 14:12 .
Genesis 29:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Fulfil her week ,.... Not Rachel's week, or a week of years of servitude for her, but Leah's week, or the week of seven days of feasting for her marriage; for a marriage feast used to be kept seven...
Genesis 29:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. Ver. 27. We will give thee this also. ] See here the guise of wicked and dece...
Genesis 29:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Fulfil her week The seven days usually devoted to the feast and solemnity of marriage, Judges 14:12-17 ; for it does not appear that it relates to the seven years Jacob afterward served. This Laba...
Genesis 29:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 29:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jacob's Marriage. B. C. 1753. 15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brot...
Genesis 29:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Fulfil her week, the seven days usually devoted to the feast and solemnity of marriage, as Judges 14:12,15,17 . And this he desired, that a week's cohabitation with Leah might either knit his af...
Genesis 29:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Laban said, “It is not so done in our place to give the younger before the firstborn. Fulfil the week of this one and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me...
Genesis 29:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 29:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Genesis 29:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Genesis 29:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Genesis 29:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
Genesis 29:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

week. Genesis 2:2 Genesis 2:3 Genesis 8:10-12 Leviticus 18:18 Judges 14:10 Judges 14:12 Malachi 2:15 1 Timothy 6:10 we will. Genesis 29:20
Genesis 29:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

We will give thee this also — Hereby he drew Jacob into the sin and snare, and disquiet of multiplying wives. Jacob did not design it, but to have kept as true to Rachel as his father had done to R...

Genesis 29:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 29:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 29:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 29:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 29:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 29:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 29:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 29:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 29:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 29:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 29:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 29:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 29:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 29:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 29:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes