Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Genesis 30:38
When by their refreshment and meeting together, they were most likely to generate and conceive.
When by their refreshment and meeting together, they were most likely to generate and conceive.
Verse Genesis 30:38. _AND HE SET THE RODS WHICH HE HAD PILLED BEFORE THE_ _FLOCKS_] It has long been an opinion that whatever makes a strong impression on the mind of a female in the time of concepti...
- Jacob’s Family and Wealth 6. דן _dān_, Dan, “judge, lord.” 8. נפתלי _naptālı̂y_, Naphtali, “wrestling.” 11. גד _gād_, Gad, “overcoming, victory.” בגד _bāgād_, “in victory or” =גד...
CHAPTER 30 JACOB WITH LABAN _ 1. The sons of Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali (Genesis 30:1)_ 2. The sons of Zilpah: Gad and Asher (Genesis 30:9) 3. The children of Leah: Issachar, Zebulon and Dinah (Genes...
JACOB GROWS RICH BY OVERREACHING LABAN. This is a difficult section. It is taken from JE. The analysis is uncertain. To J may be assigned Genesis 30:25; Genesis 30:27; Genesis 30:29;...
_over against_ Jacob places the white peeled rods in front of the flocks, when they come to drink at the breeding season. It was the popular belief that such objects, being presented to the eye at suc...
4. _Negotiations With Laban_ (Genesis 30:25-43). _Jacob proposes to provide for his own household, Genesis 30:25-31_. From the reading of the text it seems that Joseph must have been born at the end o...
_AND HE SET THE RODS WHICH HE HAD PILLED BEFORE THE FLOCKS IN THE GUTTERS IN THE WATERING TROUGHS WHEN THE FLOCKS CAME TO DRINK, THAT THEY SHOULD CONCEIVE WHEN THEY CAME TO DRINK._ Watering troughs -...
JACOB'S CHILDREN. HIS STRATAGEM TO INCREASE HIS PROPERTY 1. Rachel envied her sister] To be childless was regarded as a great reproach: cp. Luke 1:25. Fruitfulness meant an addition of strength and p...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 30 JACOB HAS 6 MORE SONS V1 Rachel saw that she produced no children for Jacob. And she was angry with her sister because her sister was successf...
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...
IN THE GUTTERS... — Heb., _in the troughs at the watering-places._ So virtually all the versions; and see Exodus 2:16, where the word rendered here “gutters” is rightly translated _troughs._ The idea...
וַ יַּצֵּ֗ג אֶת ־הַ מַּקְלֹות֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּצֵּ
JACOB'S FLOCKS INCREASE Genesis 30:25 There is little in this story to the credit of Jacob, and nothing to choose between him and Laban. They are well matched one against another; and if anything, Ja...
In reading these stories we must never forget that we are looking at things as they were in that far-gone time and must make all necessary allowances for the imperfect light in which these people live...
GOD CAUSED JACOB TO PROSPER After the seven years of service for Rachel were completed, Jacob told Laban he desired to return home. Laban did not want him to go because he knew God had made him wealth...
Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 THROUGH 35. I have no doubt that in the two wives, as I have said, we have the Gentiles and Israel: Rachel first loved on the earth, but not possessed; but...
AND HE SET THE RODS WHICH HE HAD PILLED BEFORE THE FLOCKS,.... Opposite them, in the view of them: IN THE GUTTERS IN THE WATERING TROUGHS, WHEN THE FLOCKS CAME TO DRINK; that is, in places of water,...
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. Ver. 38. _And he set...
_And pilled white streaks in them_ Pilled off the bark from the rods, at certain distances, till the white appeared between the bark. _He set the rods in the gutters_ Or channels of water, at the time...
1 Rachel in griefe for her barrennesse, giueth Bilhah her mayd vnto Iacob. 5 She beareth Dan and Naphtali. 9 Leah giueth Zilpah her mayd, who beareth Gad and Asher. 14 Reuben findeth Mandrakes, wit...
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. The impression which...
JACOB'S GREAT WEALTH...
THIRD SECTION _Jacob’s thought of returning home. New treaty with Laban. His closely calculated proposition (Prelude to the method of acquiring possession of the Egyptian vessels). Laban’s displeasur...
THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN RACHEL AND LEAH The fruitfulness of Leah moved Rachel to jealousy, then her demand to Jacob for children moves him to anger (vs.1-2). We may see a serious lesson in Rachel's word...
25-43 The fourteen years being gone, Jacob was willing to depart without any provision, except God's promise. But he had in many ways a just claim on Laban's substance, and it was the will of God tha...
These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...
Genesis 30:38 rods H4731 peeled H6478 (H8765) set H3322 (H8686) before H5227 flocks H6629 gutters H7298 watering...
JACOB PROSPERS AND DECIDES TO RETURN HOME (GENESIS 30:25 TO GENESIS 32:2). This passage is centred around two theophanies and two covenants. In the first theophany Yahweh appears to Jacob and tells hi...
CONTENTS: Jacob's posterity in Padan-aram. Another bargain between Jacob and Laban. CHARACTERS: Rachael, Jacob, Laban, Leah, Joseph. CONCLUSION: The toiling and scheming of men is the result of igno...
Genesis 30:2. _Am I in God's stead._ Rachel's impatience provoked Jacob's anger, because she asked of man whist was the prerogative of God to give. The rabbins remark here, that God keeps in his own h...
_Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it_ JACOB’S NEW CONTRACT OF SERVICE I. IT WAS ENTERED UPON IN OPPOSITION TO HIS BETTER FEELINGS AND CONVICTIONS. II. IT WAS MARKED BY WORLDLY PRUDENCE. 1. Th...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 30:37 To produce more speckled and spotted sheep and goats, Jacob manipulates the breeding process. Scholars differ as to how Jacob is using STICKS with PEELED WHITE STREAKS IN...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 30:27. I have learned by experience.] This verb is taken from a noun, which means a serpent. It seems to have such a meaning as, “to ascertain by means of a close, subtle, an...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 30:25 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN RACHEL HAD BORN JOSEPH,—either at or about the expiry of the second term of seven years. Jacob's family now consisted in all of eleven sons and one...
Now when Rachel saw that she could not bare Jacob children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I'm going to die. And Jacob was angry with her: and he said, Am I...
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