Gen 29:21-30:24, 35:18, 22-26, 1Ti 5:8 | TSK | STEP

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.

Bilhah.

24; 30:3-8; 35:22,25; 37:2

he loved.

20,31; 44:20,27; De 21:15; Mt 6:24; 10:37; Lu 14:26; Joh 12:25

served.

18; 30:25,26; 31:15,41; 1Sa 18:17-27; Ho 12:12

saw.

Ex 3:7

was hated.

30; 27:41; De 21:15; Mal 1:3; Mt 6:24; 10:37; Lu 14:26; Joh 12:25

he opened.

16:1; 20:18; 21:1,2; 25:21; 30:1,2,22; Jud 13:2,3; 1Sa 1:5,20,27

1Sa 2:21; Ps 127:3; Lu 1:7

A.M. 2252. B.C. 1752. his name.

35:22; 37:21,22,29; 42:22,27; 46:8,9; 49:3,4; 1Ch 5:1

Reuben. that is, See a son. looked.

Ex 3:7; 4:31; De 26:7; 1Sa 1:11,20; 2Sa 16:12; Ps 25:18; 106:44

Lu 1:25

A.M. 2253. B.C. 1751. Because.

30:6,8,18,20

called.

34:25,30; 35:23; 42:24; 49:5,6

Simeon. that is, Hearing.

A.M. 2254. B.C. 1750. was.

34:25; 35:23; 46:11; 49:5-7; Ex 2:1; 32:26-29; De 33:8-10

Levi. that is, joined.

Nu 18:2-4

A.M. 2255. B.C. 1749. called.

35:26; 38:1-30; 43:8,9; 44:18-34; 46:12; 49:8-12; De 33:7; 1Ch 5:2

Mt 1:2

Judah. that is, Praise. left bearing. Heb. stood frombearing.

49:8That is, for a time; for she had several children afterwards. (See ch. 30:17, etc.).

‏ Genesis 30:1-24

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

Behold.

9; 16:2,3

she shall.

50:23; Job 3:12

have children by her. Heb. be built up by her.

16:2; *marg:

Ru 4:11

to wife.

16:3; 21:10; 22:24; 25:1,6; 33:2; 35:22; 2Sa 12:11

A.M. 2256. B.C. 1748. God.

29:32-35; Ps 35:24; 43:1; La 3:59

Dan. that is, Judging.

35:25; 46:23; 49:16,17; De 33:22; Jer 13:2,24; 15:14-20

A.M. 2257. B.C. 1747.

great wrestlings. Heb. wrestlings of God.

23:6; 32:24; Ex 9:28; 1Sa 14:15; *marg:

and she.

35:25; 46:24; 49:21; De 33:23

Naphtali. that is, My wrestling.

32:24,25; Mt 4:13

Nephthalim.

A.M. 2256. B.C. 1748. left.

17; 29:35

gave her.

4; 16:3

she.

35:26; 46:16; 49:19; De 33:20,21

Gad. that is, A troop, or company.

Isa 65:11

A.M. 2257. B.C. 1747. Happy am I. Heb. In my happiness.will call.

Pr 31:28; So 6:9; Lu 1:48

and she.

35:26; 46:17; 49:20; De 33:24,25

Asher. that is, Happy.

A.M. 2256. B.C. 1748. mandrakes.The mandrake may be the Hebrew {dudaim:} it is so rendered by all the ancient versions, and is a species of melon, of an agreeable odour. Hasselquist, speaking of Nazareth in Galilee, says, "What I found most remarkable at this village was the great number of mandrakes which grew in a vale below it. I had not the pleasure of seeing this plant in blossom, the fruit now (May 5th, O. S.) hanging ripe on the stem, which lay withered on the ground. From the season in which this mandrake blossoms and ripens fruit, one might form a conjecture that it was Rachel's {dudaim.} These were brought her in the wheat harvest, which in Galilee is in the month of May, about this time, and the mandrake was now in fruit." The Abbee Mariti describes it as growing "low like a lettuce, to which its leaves have a great resemblance, except that they have a dark green colour. The flowers are purple, and the root is for the most part forked. The fruit, when ripe in the beginning of May, is of the size and colour of a small apple, exceedingly ruddy, and of a most agreeable odour. Our guide thought us fools for suspecting it to be unwholesome."

So 7:13

Give me.

25:30

Nu 16:9,10,13; Isa 7:13; Eze 16:47; 1Co 4:3

A.M. 2257. B.C. 1747.

6,22; Ex 3:7; 1Sa 1:20,26,27; Lu 1:13

and she.

35:23; 46:13; 49:14,15; De 33:18; 1Ch 12:32

Issachar. that is, An hire.

A.M. cir. 2258. B.C. cir. 1746. now will.

15; 29:34

and she.

35:23; 46:14; 49:13; Jud 4:10; 5:14; Ps 68:27

Zebulun. that is, Dwelling.

Mt 4:13

Zabulon.

A.M. cir. 2259. B.C. 1745. and called.

34:1-3,26; 46:15

Dinah. that is, Judgment.

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

‏ Genesis 35:18

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 35:22-26

lay with.

49:4; Le 18:8; 2Sa 16:21,22; 20:3; 1Ch 5:1; 1Co 5:1

Now the sons.In the Hebrew text, a break is here left in the verse, opposite to which there is a Masoretic note, which states that "there is a hiatus in the verse." This hiatus the LXX., thus supplies: [kai poneros ephane enantion autou ,] "and it appeared evil in his sight."

18; 29:31-35; 30:5-24; 46:8-27; 49:1-28; Ex 1:1-5; 6:14-16; Nu 1:5-15

Nu 1:20-46; 2:3-33; 7:12-89; 26:5-51,57-62; 34:14-28; De 33:1-29

Jos 13:1-21:45; 1Ch 2:1,2; 12:23-40; 27:16-22; Eze 48:1-35; Ac 7:8

Re 7:4-8; 21:14

29:32-35; 30:18-20; 33:2; 46:8-15

16-18; 30:22-24; 46:19-22

30:4-8; 37:2; 46:23-25

And the sons.

30:9-13; 46:16-18

in Padan-aram. Except Benjamin.

18; 25:20; 28:2; 31:18