Genesis 29:26

country. Heb. place. Genesis 29:26

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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....
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Laban said, (i) It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. (i) He valued the profit he had from Jacob's se...
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 ( Gene...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. It must not be so done in our country - It was an ea...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Laban said, It must not, &c.— This appears to have been a mere shift, as we read of no such custom; or, had the fact been true, he ought to hav...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The custom which Laban pleaded was not uncommon. Among the Hindoos it is a law not to give the younger daughter in marriage until the elder is marrie...
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 gav...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

It must not be so done in our country. — Heb., It is not so done in our place, to give, &c. We have seen that it is still customary for the e...
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 wr...
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 ye...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Laban said, it must not be so done in, our country ,.... Or "in our place" s; in this our city it is not usual and customary to do so; he does n...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. Ver. 26. It must not be so done in our country. ]...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This seems to be a false pretence; but if it had been true, custom is to give place to justice, by which he was obliged to perform his contract with...
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...
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 t...
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;...
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. Sel...
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 a...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger-afore the first-born. Granted that this was an established custom in the p...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

It must be so done in our country — We have reason to think there was no such custom in his country; but if there was, and that he resolved to obse...

²⁶ And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country,c to give the younger before the firstborn.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 29:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Genesis 29:26