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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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BROTHER. See on Genesis 29:6 and App-29....
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_her father's brother_ In the sense of "relative"; strictly speaking,
her father's sister's son. Cf. Genesis 29:15 and Genesis 13:8.
_ran and told_ We are reminded of Rebekah's action in Genesis
24:2...
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PART FORTY-ONE
THE STORY OF JACOB: HIS EXPERIENCES IN PADDAN-ARAM
(Genesis 29:1 to Genesis 31:16)
The Biblical Account
1. Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the
children of the...
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_AND JACOB TOLD RACHEL THAT HE WAS HER FATHER'S BROTHER, AND THAT HE
WAS REBEKAH'S SON: AND SHE RAN AND TOLD HER FATHER._
Jacob told Rachel ... According to the practice of the East, the term
"brothe...
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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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Rachel’s aunt Rebekah had gone to *Canaan to marry Isaac. (See
Genesis 24:50-51; Genesis 24:61.) We can be sure that Rachel’s
father Laban had told her that....
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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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וַ יַּגֵּ֨ד יַעֲקֹ֜ב לְ רָחֵ֗ל כִּ֣י
אֲחִ֤י
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JACOB IN LABAN'S HOME
Genesis 29:1
Well might Jacob lift up his feet! See margin. When we are sure of God
we receive strength that enables us to _run_ with patience the race
that is set before us. Th...
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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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_Brother, or nephew. The name of brother, in Scripture, almost
corresponds with the Consanguineus of the Latins, or our relation._...
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Brother, here means no more than a relation....
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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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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 JACOB TOLD RACHEL,.... Or "had told" i her; before he kissed her,
and lift up his voice and wept, as Aben Ezra observes:
THAT HE [WAS] HER FATHER'S BROTHER; his nephew by his sister, for such
wer...
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And Jacob told Rachel that he [was] her father's brother, and that he
[was] Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.
Ver. 12. That he was her father's brother.] And therefore made so
bold with...
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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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And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, in the wider
sense, that of a close relative, AND THAT HE WAS REBEKAH'S SON; AND
SHE RAN AND TOLD HER FATHER. Rachel was now, in turn, overjoyed...
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Jacob Meets 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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9-14 See Rachel's humility and industry. Nobody needs to be ashamed of
honest, useful labour, nor ought it to hinder any one's preferment.
When Jacob understood that this was his kinswoman, he was ver...
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LOT now suffered for his cohabitation with bad neighbours....
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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 29:12 Jacob H3290 told H5046 (H8686) Rachel H7354 fathers H1
relative H251 Rebekahs H7259 son H1121 ran...
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‘And Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept. And Jacob
told Rachel that he was her father's brother and that he was Rebekah's
son. And she ran and told her father.'
The meeting is emotio...
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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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_Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people
of the east_
JACOB’S EXPERIENCE ON HIS JOURNEY
I. THAT GOD’S PRESENCE WITH HIM MADE HIS DUTIES AND HIS TROUBLES
LIGHT. He who ca...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 29:1 There are similarities between this
passage and the earlier journey of Abraham’s servant to Paddan-aram
to find a wife for Isaac (ch. Genesis 24:1). While both accounts in...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 29:1. Went on his journey.] Heb. _Lifted up his feet._ (See
Psalms 74:3.) The idea is that he journeyed with alacrity. _Rashi_,
the Jewish commentator, says, “his heart was el...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 29:1
THEN JACOB WENT ON HIS JOURNEY (literally, _lifted up his feet—a
_graphic description of traveling. Inspired by new hopes, and
conscious of loftier aims than when he fled from...
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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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brother. Genesis 13:8 Genesis 14:14 and she. Genesis 24:28...