27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
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Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:
So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. …
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-30)Here is, I. The fair contract made between Laban and Jacob, during the month that Jacob spent there as a guest, Gen. 29:14. It seems he was not idle, nor did he spend his time in sport and pastime; but like a man of business, though he had no stock of his own, he applied himself to serve his uncle, as he had begun (Gen. 29:10) when he watered his flock . Note, Wherever we are, it is good to be emp…
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