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Verse Genesis 29:27. _FULFIL HER WEEK_] The marriage feast, it
appears, lasted _seven days_; it would not therefore have been proper
to break off the solemnities to which all the men of the place had...
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- Jacob’s Marriage
6. רחל _rāchēl_, Rachel, “a ewe.”
16. לאה _lê'âh_, Leah, “wearied.”
24. זלפה _zı̂lpâh_, Zilpah, “drop?”
29. בלהה _bı̂lhâh_, Bilhah, “timidity.”
32. ראוּבן
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CHAPTER 29 JACOB WITH LABAN
_ 1. Jacob's arrival at Padan-aram (Genesis 29:1)_
2. His service for Rachel (Genesis 29:15)
3. Laban's deception (Genesis 29:21)
4. Jacob receives Rachel ...
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JACOB SERVES SEVEN YEARS FOR RACHEL. LABAN SUBSTITUTES LEAH AND
SECURES FOURTEEN YEARS'SERVICE IN EXCHANGE FOR THE TWO. Apart from
bits of P (Genesis 29:24; Genesis 29:28_ b_, Genesis 29:29) the
secti...
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WE, i.e. I, by Figure of speech _Heterosis_ (of Number)....
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FULFIL HER WEEK— i.e.. perfect this marriage with Leah, by keeping
the solemnity of seven days feasting, which seems to have been the
time allowed for marriage feasts; and this done, thou shalt solemn...
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2. _Jacob's Double Marriage_ (Genesis 29:13-30).
_The Meeting with Laban._ When Laban heard of Jacob's presence, _he
ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to
his house._ T...
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_FULFIL HER WEEK, AND WE WILL GIVE THEE THIS ALSO FOR THE SERVICE
WHICH THOU SHALT SERVE WITH ME YET SEVEN OTHER YEARS._
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also, ... i:e., complete
without d...
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FULFIL HER WEEK] i.e. celebrate Leah's bridal festivities for the
usual seven days: cp. Judges 14:12....
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JACOB IN MESOPOTAMIA WITH LABAN
The divine care and blessing promised to Jacob at Bethel (Genesis
28:15) are illustrated in the narrative of the sojourn of the
patriarch at Haran, which apparently las...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 29
JACOB MEETS RACHEL
V1 Then Jacob continued his journey. He came to the land where the
people in the east lived. V2 As he looked, he saw a well...
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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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FULFIL HER WEEK. — The marriage festival seems to have lasted a
week, as was the custom in later times (Judges 14:12), and. to have
forsaken Leah during this period would have been to offer her an
ins...
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מַלֵּ֖א שְׁבֻ֣עַ זֹ֑את וְ נִתְּנָ֨ה
לְךָ֜ גַּ
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JACOB MARRIES LEAH AND RACHEL
Genesis 29:21
The chief lesson of this paragraph is its illustration of the awful
nemesis which accompanies wrongdoing. No thoughtful person can watch
the events of hist...
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Pursuing his journey after his experience at Luz, now called Beth-el,
Jacob came into "the land of the children of the east." Here the next
twenty years of his life were to be spent, during which he a...
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THE DECEIVER IS DECEIVED
When Jacob came to a well in a field in northern Mesopotamia, he
inquired where he was. He learned he was near Haran and soon met
Rachel, his uncle Laban's daughter, who was c...
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See Judges 14:12....
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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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27._Fulfil her week_. Laban now is become callous in wickedness, for
he extorts other seven years from his nephew to allow him to marry his
other daughter. If he had had ten more daughters, he would h...
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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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FULFIL HER WEEK,.... Not Rachel's week, or a week of years of
servitude for her, but Leah's week, or the week of seven days of
feasting for her marriage; for a marriage feast used to be kept seven
day...
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Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which
thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Ver. 27. _We will give thee this also._] See here the guise of wicked
and deceit...
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Gen. 29:27. "Fulfil her week." By this it is evident that then, in
those days, their time was divided out into weeks, or parcels of seven
days, as it is now, by which may rationally be argued that the...
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_Fulfil her week_ The seven days usually devoted to the feast and
solemnity of marriage, Judges 14:12; for it does not appear that it
relates to the seven years Jacob afterward served. This Laban seem...
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1 Iacob commeth to the well of Haran.
9 He taketh acquaintance of Rachel.
13 Laban enterteineth him.
18 Iacob couenanteth for Rachel.
23 He is deceiued with Leah.
28 He marrieth also Rachel, and...
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Fulfill her week, and we will give thee this also for the service
which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. The nuptial
feast lasting seven days, Jacob was to confirm marriage with Leah by...
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Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel...
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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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JACOB MEETS RACHEL AND LABAN
After many days of travel Jacob came to the land of his relatives. He
could not phone to find his directions to their home, nor did he have
any street and house number, bu...
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15-30 During the month that Jacob spent as a guest, he was not idle.
Wherever we are, it is good to employ ourselves in some useful
business. Laban was desirous that Jacob should continue with him.
I...
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FULFIL HER WEEK, the seven days usually devoted to the feast and
solemnity of marriage, as JUDGES 14:12,15,17. And this he desired,
that a week's cohabitation with Leah might either knit his affection...
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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 29:27 Fulfill H4390 (H8761) her H2063 week H7620 give H5414
(H8799) service H5656 serve H5647 ...
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‘And Laban said, “It is not so done in our place to give the
younger before the firstborn. Fulfil the week of this one and we will
give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me,...
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CONTENTS: Jacob and Laban, two bargain makers, meet.
CHARACTERS: Jacob, Laban, Rachael, Leah, Reuben, Levi, Judah.
CONCLUSION: The believer who has erred may not be forsaken of God, but
he is permit...
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Genesis 29:1. _Jacob went on his journey._ Our version fails here to
express the lively sense of the Hebrew, as in most versions. _Levabit
pedes;_ he tripped along with light feet, being now assured t...
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_He took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him_
LABAN’S FRAUD ON JACOB
I. THE CHARACTER OF THE FRAUD.
1. Deliberate.
2. Bold.
3. Selfish.
II. THE FRAUD CONSIDERED AS A RETRIBUTION. There are...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 29:27 COMPLETE THE WEEK OF THIS ONE. The
wedding celebrations lasted for seven days. Laban persuades Jacob to
complete this process with Leah, with the understanding that that...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 29:23. He took Leah, his daughter, and brought her to him.]
“The fraud was rendered possible by the Eastern custom of the bride
being veiled, aided by the darkness of the nig...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 29:15
AND LABAN SAID UNTO JACOB (probably at the month's end), BECAUSE THOU
ART—literally, _is it not that_._ thou art _(cf. Genesis 27:36;...
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Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of
the east. And he looked, behold there was a well in the field, and,
there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that...
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week. Genesis 2:2 Genesis 2:3 Genesis 8:10 Leviticus 18:18 Judges
14:10
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We will give thee this also — Hereby he drew Jacob into the sin and
snare, and disquiet of multiplying wives. Jacob did not design it, but
to have kept as true to Rachel as his father had done to Rebe...
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When was Rachel given to be Jacob’s wife?
PROBLEM: In Genesis 29:27 Laban tells Jacob to complete the bridal
week of feasting with Leah, and then Rachel would be given to him.
However, the verse also...