Genesis 29:15-20

tell me.

30:28; 31:7

was Leah.

17,25-32; 30:19; 31:4; 33:2; 35:23; 46:15; 49:31; Ru 4:11

Rachel.

6-12,18; 30:1,2,22; 35:19,20,24; 46:19-22; 48:7; 1Sa 10:2; Jer 31:15

Mt 2:18

beautiful.

12:11; 24:16; 39:6; Pr 31:30

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

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

Genesis 29:27-30

week.

2:2,3; 8:10-12; Le 18:18; Jud 14:10,12; Mal 2:15; 1Ti 6:10

we will.

20

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.

28

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

Genesis 30:26

my wives.

29:19,20,30; 31:26,31,41; Ho 12:12

for thou.

29,30; 31:6,38-40

Genesis 31:41

fourteen.

38; 29:18-30; 30:33-40; 1Co 15:10; 2Co 11:26

ten times.

7

Exodus 21:7-11

sell.

Ne 5:5

go out.

2,3

please not. Heb. be evil in the eyes of, etc.

Ge 28:8; Jud 14:3; 1Sa 8:6; 18:8; *marg:

who hath.

De 20:7; 21:11-14

seeing.

8:29; Jud 9:19; Job 6:15; Mal 2:11-15

9

her food.{Sheairah,} "her flesh;" he shall not only afford her a sufficient quantity of food, as before, but of the same quality. She is not to be fed, like a common slave, with a sufficiency of bread, vegetables, milk, etc., but with her customary supply of flesh, and other agreeable articles of food.

1Co 7:1-6

2

Nehemiah 5:8

We after.

Mt 25:15,29; 2Co 8:12; Ga 6:10

redeemed.

Le 25:47-49

sell your.

Ex 21:16; De 24:7

shall they.

Ro 14:15; 1Co 8:11

held.

Job 29:10; 32:15; Mt 22:12; Ro 3:19
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