Gen 29:6-12, 18, 30:1-2, 22, 35:19-20, 24, 46:19-22, 48:7, 1Sa 10:2, Jer 31:15 | TSK | STEP

Genesis 29:6-12

Is he well? Heb. there peace to him?

37:14; 43:27; Ex 18:7; 1Sa 17:22; 25:5; 2Sa 20:9

Lo.

Ga 6:9,10; Eph 5:16

it is yet high day. Heb. yet the day is great.

until.

3; 34:14; 43:32

roll.

Mr 16:3; Lu 24:2

Rachel.

24:15; Ex 2:15,16,21; So 1:7,8

for she kept them.In those primitive times, a pastoral life was not only considered useful but honourable: nor was it beneath the dignity of the daughters of the most opulent chiefs to carry water from the well, or tend the sheep. Jacob, Moses, and David were shepherds.

rolled.

Ex 2:17

kissed.

13; 27:26; 33:4; 43:30; 45:2,14,15; Ex 4:27; 18:7; Ro 16:16

and wept.

33:4; 43:30; 45:2,14,15

brother.

13:8; 14:14-16

and she.

24:28

Genesis 29:18

loved.

20,30

I will serve.In ancient times, it was a custom among many nations to give dowries for their wives; but Jacob, being poor, offered for Rachel seven year's service.

31:41; 34:12; Ex 22:16,17; 2Sa 3:14; Ho 3:2; 12:12

Genesis 30:1-2

1 Rachel, in grief for her barrenness, gives Bilhah her maid unto Jacob.

5 Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali.

9 Leah gives Zilpah her maid, who bears Gad and Asher.

14 Reuben finds mandrakes, with which Leah buys her husband's company of Rachel.

17 Leah bears Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah.

22 Rachel bears Joseph.

25 Jacob desires to depart.

27 Laban detains him on a new agreement.

37 Jacob's policy, whereby he becomes rich.

when Rachel.

29:31

Rachel envied.Envy and jealousy are most tormenting passions to the breast which harbours them, vexatious to all around, and introductory to much impatience and ungodliness. "Who is able to stand before envy?"

37:11; 1Sa 1:4-8; Ps 106:16; Pr 14:30; Ec 4:4; 1Co 3:3; Ga 5:21

Tit 3:3; Jas 3:14; 4:5

or else I die.

35:16-19; 37:11; Nu 11:15,29; 1Ki 19:4; Job 3:1-3,11,20-22; 5:2

Job 13:19; Jer 20:14-18; Joh 4:3,8; 2Co 7:10

anger.

31:36; Ex 32:19; Mt 5:22; Mr 3:5; Eph 4:26

Am I.

16:2; 25:21; 50:19; 1Sa 1:5; 2:5,6; 2Ki 5:7

withheld.

De 7:13,14; Ps 113:9; 127:3; Lu 1:42