Genesis 27:43
do what ... say <08085> [obey.]
Haran <02771> [Haran.]
Genesis 28:1--29:35
blessed <01288> [blessed.]
marry <03947> [Thou shalt.]
immediately <06965> [Arise.]
Paddan Aram <06307> [Padan-aram.]
Laban <03837> [Laban.]
God <0410> [God.]
fruitful <06509> [and make.]
large <06951> [a multitude. Heb. an assembly.]
blessing <01293> [the blessing.]
living as a temporary resident <04033> [wherein thou art a stranger. Heb. of thy sojournings.]
God <0430> [which.]
sent Jacob ......................... Jacob <07971 03290> [sent away Jacob.]
Whoever observes Jacob's life, after he had surreptitiously obtained his father's blessing, will perceive that he enjoyed very little worldly felicity. His brother purposed to murder him, to avoid which he was forced to flee from his father's house; his uncle Laban deceived him, as he had deceived his father, and treated him with great rigour; after a servitude of 21 years, he was obliged to leave him in a clandestine manner, not without danger of being brought back, or murdered by his enraged brother; no sooner were these fears over, than he experienced the baseness of his son Reuben, in defiling his bed; he had next to bewail the treachery and cruelty of Simeon and Levi toward the Shechemites; then he had to feel the loss of his beloved wife; he was next imposed upon by his own sons, and had to lament the supposed untimely end of Joseph; and to complete all, he was forced by famine to go into Egypt, and there died, in a strange land. So just, wonderful, and instructive are all the ways of Providence!
Paddan Aram <06307> [Padan-aram.]
Esau <06215> [Esau.]
find ............... marry <03947> [Thou.]
women <01323> [the daughters.]
displeasing <05869 07451> [pleased not. Heb. were evil in the eyes.]
Ishmael .............. Ishmael <03458> [unto Ishmael.]
Mahalath <04258> [Mahalath. called also, Bashemath.]
sister <0269> [the sister.]
took <03947> [took.]
near ... head <07760 04763> [put them.]
This should be "put it;" for we find (ver. 18) it was only one stone.
dream <02492> [he dreamed.]
stairway <05551> [ladder.]
Lord stood .......... Lord <05324 03068> [the Lord stood.]
Lord ........... Lord <03068> [I am.]
ground <0776> [the land.]
descendants ......................................... descendants <02233> [thy seed.]
spread out <06555> [spread abroad. Heb. break forth. to the west.]
descendants ......................................... descendants <02233> [and in thee.]
protect <08104> [I am.]
protect <08104> [keep.]
back <07725> [bring.]
leave <05800> [for I.]
wherever ................... have ... what <0834> [until.]
realize <03045> [and I.]
afraid ...... awesome <03372> [he was.]
house <01004> [the house.]
Early <07925> [rose up.]
took <03947> [and took.]
The practice of setting up stones as a memorial by travellers still exists in Persia, and other parts of the East.
placed ...... set <07760> [set it.]
poured <03332> [poured.]
called ........ name <08034> [the name.]
Bethel <01008> [Beth-el. i.e., the house of God.]
made <05087> [vowed.]
God <0430> [If God.]
gives <05414> [will give.]
return <07725> [I come.]
Lord <03068> [then.]
God <0430> [God's.]
surely ...... tenth <06237> [I will.]
Jacob <03290> [Jacob.]
moved on <05375 07272> [went on his journey. Heb. lifted up his feet. came.]
people <01121> [people. Heb. children. east.]
The district of Mesopotamia, and the whole country beyond the Euphrates, are called Kedem, or the East, in the Sacred Writings.
well ................. well ........... well <0875> [a well.]
three <07969> [there.]
large stone <068 01419> [a great stone.]
In Arabia, and other places in the East, they cover up their wells of water, lest the sand, which is put in motion by the winds, should fill and quite stop them up. So great was their care not to leave the well open any length of time, that they waited till the flocks were all gathered together before they began to draw water; and when they had finished, the well was immediately closed again.
flocks <05739> [the flocks.]
Instead of {haadarim,} "the flocks," the Samaritan reads {haroin,} "the shepherds," as does also the Arabic in Walton's Polyglott. This verse describes what was usually done by some mutual compact among the shepherds, and shows the purpose for which the flocks lay by the well; for the stone was not removed till all the flocks had been collected. Scott.
Haran <02771> [Of Haran.]
[Charran.]
grandson ... Nahor <01121 05152> [son of.]
[Is he well? Heb. there peace to him?]
Since <02005> [Lo.]
day <01419 03117> [it is yet high day. Heb. yet the day is great.]
flocks <05739> [until.]
rolled <01556> [roll.]
Rachel <07354> [Rachel.]
tending <07462> [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 <01556> [rolled.]
kissed <05401> [kissed.]
weep <01058> [and wept.]
relative <0251> [brother.]
ran <07323> [and she.]
news <08088> [tidings. Heb. hearing. he ran.]
kissed <05401> [kissed.]
<01697> [all these.]
flesh <06106> [art my.]
month <02320 03117> [the space of a month. Heb. a month of days.]
Tell ..... wages <05046 04909> [tell me.]
Leah <03812> [was Leah.]
Rachel <07354> [Rachel.]
lovely .... beautiful <03303> [beautiful.]
love <0157> [loved.]
serve <05647> [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.
worked <05647> [A.M. 2251. B.C. 1753. served.]
<0160> [for the love.]
Give .... wife <03051 0802> [Give me.]
time <03117> [my days.]
have marital relations <0935> [go in.]
prepared <06213> [and made.]
brought ......... had marital relations <0935> [brought her.]
Zilpah <02153> [Zilpah.]
morning <01242> [in the morning.]
tricked <07411> [wherefore.]
here <04725> [country. Heb. place.]
week <07620> [week.]
give <05414> [we will.]
When ... completed .... week <07620 04390> [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 <01090> [Bilhah.]
loved <0157> [he loved.]
worked <05647> [served.]
saw <07200> [saw.]
unloved <08130> [was hated.]
enabled ... to become pregnant <06605> [he opened.]
named <08034> [A.M. 2252. B.C. 1752. his name.]
Reuben <07205> [Reuben. that is, See a son. looked.]
Lord <03068> [A.M. 2253. B.C. 1751. Because.]
So she <07121> [called.]
Simeon <08095> [Simeon. that is, Hearing.]
named <08034> [A.M. 2254. B.C. 1750. was.]
Levi <03878> [Levi. that is, joined.]
she <07121> [A.M. 2255. B.C. 1749. called.]
Judah <03063> [Judah. that is, Praise. left bearing. Heb. stood from bearing.]
That is, for a time; for she had several children afterwards. (See ch. 30:17, etc.).
Deuteronomy 26:5
Aramean <0761> [A Syrian.]
Jacob being called a Syrian from his long residence in Padan-aram.
wandering <06> [ready.]
went down <03381> [he went down.]
few ... number <04592> [a few.]
people <01471> [became.]
