“ And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. ”
- 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 )...
Bilhah. This was strictly in accordance with the Code of Khammurabi, 145. See App-15.
And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. Gave to Rachel ... Bilhah ... to be her maid. A father in good circumstances still gives his daughter from his househ...
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 to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. As he had given Leah an handmaid he gave Rachel another; and this in the Targum of Jonathan is said to be a daughter of La...
And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. Ver. 29. Bilhah his handmaid. ] Who afterward played false play with her master and husband, and incestuously lay with Reu...
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...
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‘And Laban gave Bilhah his handmaid to his daughter Rachel to be her handmaid.' Once again Laban provides a handmaid for his daughter from his household, and another person is added to Jacob's grou...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 29:31 . Leah was hated.] The word is to be understood relatively, not absolutely. By the usage of the Heb. to be hated, signifies only to be loved less. Genesis 29:32...
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 loved also Rachel more than Leah Leah and Rachel: their trims and compensations I. THEIR TRIALS. Leah was “hated “ ( Genesis 29:31 ), i.e. , she was loved less than Rachel By becoming a par...
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
Bilhah. See on ver. Genesis 29:24 Genesis 30:3-8 Genesis 35:22 Genesis 35:25 Genesis 37:2