7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-9)This passage concerning Esau comes in in the midst of Jacob’s story, either, 1. To show the influence of a good example. Esau, though the greater man, now begins to think Jacob the better man, and disdains not to take him for his pattern in this particular instance of marrying with a daughter of Abraham. The elder children should give to the younger an example of tractableness and obedience; it is…
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