and made. Judges 14:10-18 Ruth 4:10-13 Matthew 22:2-10 Matthew 25:1-10 John 2:1-10 Revelation 19:9
- Jacob’s Marriage 6. רחל rāchēl , Rachel, “a ewe.” 16. לאה lê'âh , Leah, “wearied.” 24. זלפה zı̂lpâh , Zilpah, “drop?” 29....
Jacob Serves Seven Years for Rachel. Laban Substitutes Leah and Secures Fourteen Years'service in Exchange for the Two. Apart from bits of P ( Gene...
22. And Laban gathered together. Moses does not mean that a supper was prepared for the whole people, but that many guests were invited, as i...
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. Laban - made a feast - משתה mishteh signifies a feast of drinking. As marriag...
Laban gathered together, &c.— Contracts of marriage were ratified anciently by the magistrates of the place: for this purpose, and to make the...
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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...
A feast ] the wedding feast. 23-25. Jacob the deceiver is now the deceived. The bride would be closely veiled (see Genesis 24:65 ), and, it bein...
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 gav...
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel Genesis 29:21-35 The chief lesson of this paragraph is its illustration of the awful nemesis which accompanies wr...
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 ye...
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place ,.... Of the city of Haran, which may be understood of the chief and principal of them, to make...
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. Ver. 22. And made a feast. ] Never more seasonable, surely, than at the re...
Laban gathered all the men of the place His kindred and neighbours, according to custom, Judges 14:10-11 ; John 2:1-2 . Probably he collected a g...
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...
Jacob's Marriage. B. C. 1753. 15 And...
This was the ancient manner of swearing. See Exodus 6:8 Numbers 14:30 Deuteronomy 32:40 Ezekiel 20:5,6 .
‘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 t...
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 t...
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 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. Sel...
EXPOSITION Genesis 29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob (probably at the month's end), Because thou art —literally, is it not that . thou a...
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. He arranged the customary marriage-festival, making it as splendid as his wea...
22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.