Gen 29:18-21, 28, 30:22-25, 35:16-18, 46:19 | TSK | STEP | loved. 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.

Genesis 29:18-21

loved.

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

Ps 12:2; Isa 6:5,11

A.M. 2251. B.C. 1753. served.

30:26; Ho 12:12

for the love.

24:67; So 8:6,7; 1Co 13:7; 2Co 5:14; Eph 5:2

Give me.

Mt 1:18

my days.

18,20; 31:41

go in.

4:1; 38:16; Jud 15:1

Genesis 29:28

fulfilled her week.The public marriage feast made on this occasion, seems to have formed the regular method of recognising the marriage, and lasted seven days: it would therefore have been improper to have broken off the solemnities to which all the men of the place had been invited (ver. 22) and probably Laban wished to keep the fraud from the public eye. It is perfectly plain that Jacob did not serve seven years more before he got Rachel to wife.

Genesis 30:22-25

remembered.

8:1; 21:1; 29:31; 1Sa 1:19,20; Ps 105:42

opened.

2; 21:1,2; 25:21; 29:31; Ps 113:9; 127:3 "Be fruitful and multiply," was the blessing of God: barrenness therefore was reckoned a reproach. The intense desire of having children, observable among the Jewish women, arose not only from this reproach of barrenness, but from the hope of being the mother of the promised seed, and Him in whom all the nations of the earth were to be blessed.

29:31; 1Sa 1:5,6; Isa 4:1; Lu 1:21,25,27

And she.

35:24; 37:2,4; 39:1-23; 42:6; 48:1-22; 49:22-26; De 33:13-17

Eze 37:16; Ac 7:9-15; Heb 11:21,22; Re 7:8

Joseph. that is, Adding.

35:17,18

Send me away.

24:54,56

mine.

18:33; 31:55

and to.

24:6,7; 26:3; 27:44,45; 28:13,15; 31:13; Ac 7:4,5; Heb 11:9,15,16

Genesis 35:16-18

a little way to come. Heb. a little piece of ground.

2Ki 5:19

Ephrath.

48:7; Ru 1:2; 1Ch 2:19; Ps 132:6; Mic 5:2; Mt 2:1,16,18

hard labour.

3:16; 1Ti 2:15

Fear not.

30:24; 1Sa 4:19-21

A.M. cir. 2275. B.C. cir. 1729. her soul.

30:1; 1Sa 4:20,21; Ps 16:10; Ex 12:7; La 2:12; Lu 12:20; 23:46

Ac 7:59

Ben-oni. i.e., the son of my sorrow.

1Ch 4:9

Benjamin. i.e., the son of my right hand.

42:4,38; 43:14; 44:27-31; Ps 80:17The Samaritan has {ben yamim,} "the son of days," i.e., of his old age, (ch. 44:20,) which Jerome renders Benjamin, {id est, filius dextrae, Benjamin,} that is, "the son of the right hand."

Genesis 46:19

Rachel.

29:18; 30:24; 35:16-18,24; 44:27; Ex 1:3,5; 1Ch 2:2

Joseph.

37:1-36; 39:1-23; 40:1-45:28; 47:1-31; 49:22-27; 50:1-14

Nu 1:36,37; 26:38-41; De 33:12-17