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Verse Genesis 30:14. _REUBEN - FOUND MANDRAKES_] דודאים
_dudaim_. What these were is utterly unknown, and learned men have
wasted much time and pains in endeavouring to guess out a probable
meaning....
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- 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...
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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...
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GENESIS 29:31 TO GENESIS 30:24. THE BIRTH OF JACOB'S CHILDREN. This
section is from JE, with slight touches from P. Roughly Genesis 29:31;
Gene
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MANDRAKES. Septuagint _mandragora,_ the root easily formed, by
pinching it, into the shape of. man. Hence its name; also supposed to
be and used as. "love-philtre". Arabic. "apples of Satan"....
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Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24. Birth of Jacob's Children
31 35 (J); Genesis 30:1-24 (J, E and P)
In this section is narrated the account of the birth of eleven sons
and one daughter. Six of the son...
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_mandrakes_ R.V. marg. _love-apples_. The mandrake (_mandragora
vernalis_) is a tuberous plant, with yellow plumlike fruit. It was
supposed to act as a love-charm. It ripens in May, which suits the
me...
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FOUND MANDRAKES— Many eminent Naturalists, ancient and modern, have
written largely concerning the nature and properties of these _dudaim_
or _mandrakes._ But as it is by no means necessary to enter m...
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3. _Jacob's Family_ (Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24).
_Basic Facts:_ (1) Jacob became the father of twelve sons and one
daughter. The inferior value set on a daughter is displayed in the
bare announce...
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_AND REUBEN WENT IN THE DAYS OF WHEAT HARVEST, AND FOUND MANDRAKES IN
THE FIELD, AND BROUGHT THEM UNTO HIS MOTHER LEAH. THEN RACHEL SAID TO
LEAH, GIVE ME, I PRAY THEE, OF THY SON'S MANDRAKES._
Reuben...
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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...
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MANDRAKE] or 'love apple.' A dwarf plant with large grey leaves and
whitish-green blossoms. It yields in the spring a yellow fruit like a
small tomato, and was believed to produce fruitfulness.
18-24...
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A mandrake is a yellow fruit. Women who had no children would eat the
mandrakes. They believed that they were then more likely to become
*pregnant. Rachel probably believed that. She wanted to eat the...
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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...
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REUBEN WENT... — When Leah ceased from bearing, there would be a
considerable interval before she and Jacob gave up all expectation of
further seed by her. Slowly and unwillingly she would substitute...
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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...
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וַ יֵּ֨לֶךְ רְאוּבֵ֜ן בִּ ימֵ֣י
קְצִיר ־חִטִּ
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SONS BORN TO JACOB
Genesis 30:1
The details of this paragraph are given with great minuteness, because
they concern the twelve sons of Jacob, the forefathers of Israel.
After all, history is made in...
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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...
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JOSEPH, RACHEL'S FIRSTBORN
There are two possible reasons Rachel wanted the mandrakes, a
poisonous plant of the potato family. She may have thought they
produced fertility, since many in that region s...
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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found (e) mandrakes
in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said
to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
(e)...
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Ruben, now perhaps about four years old, playing in the fields, in the
latter harvest time, (Exodus ix. 32) found mandrakes of an
extraordinary beauty and flavour, (Canticle of Canticles vii. 13.)
whe...
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Mandrakes, dudaim in the original; probably a rare kind of fruit,
supposed to possess prolific virtues....
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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...
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14._And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest_. This narration of
the fact that a boy brought home I know not what kind of fruit out of
the fields, and presented it to his mother, by which she purc...
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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...
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AND REUBEN WENT IN THE DAYS OF WHEAT HARVEST,.... Leah's eldest son,
who is supposed to be at this time about four or five years of age e,
who went out from the tent to the field, to play there perhap...
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_Found mandrakes_ The word דודאים, thus rendered, is only found
here and Song of Solomon 7:13; and it is not agreed among interpreters
whether it signifies a fruit or a flower. It is thought, however,...
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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...
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The Last Children of Leah...
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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in
the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Little Reuben, at
that time about four or five years old, found the berries of th...
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SECOND SECTION
_Jacob’s wives and children. Jacob and Rachel, Laban’s youngest
daughter. First and second treaty with Laban. His involuntary
consummation of marriage with Leah. The double marriage. L...
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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...
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14-24 The desire, good in itself, but often too great and irregular,
of being the mother of the promised Seed, with the honour of having
many children, and the reproach of being barren, were causes of...
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_ CIR. 1748_ MANDRAKES: the word is only found here and SONG OF
SOLOMON 7:13, whence it appears that it is a plant or fruit of
pleasant smell, such as the mandrake is said to be by Dioscorides and
Lev...
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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...
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Genesis 30:14 Reuben H7205 in H3212 (H8799) days H3117 wheat H2406
harvest H7105 found H4672 (H8799) mandrakes...
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‘And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in
the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said,
“Give me, I beg you, of your son's mandrakes.”
“THE DAYS OF WHEAT...
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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...
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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...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 30:14 Leah buys from Rachel the right to lie
with Jacob. Having agreed to this with her sister, she says to Jacob,
I HAVE HIRED YOU WITH MY SON’S MANDRAKES. The context suggest...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 30:14. Mandrakes.] “The mandrake is universally distributed
in all parts of Palestine, and its fruit is much valued by the
natives, who still hold to the belief, as old as the...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 30:14
AND REUBEN (at this time four or five years old) WENT (probably
accompanying the reapers) IN THE DAYS OF WHEAT HARVEST, AND FOUND
MANDRAKES—דּוּדָאים, μῆλα μαδραγορῶν,_
_(L...
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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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A.M. 2256. B.C. 1748. mandrakes. Song of Solomon 7:13 Give me. Genesis
25:30...
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Reuben, a little lad of five or six years old, playing in the field,
found mandrakes. It is uncertain what they were; the critics are not
agreed about them: we are sure they were some rarities, either...