29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
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And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. …
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-36)We have here, I. Jacob’s thoughts of home. He faithfully served his time out with Laban, even his second apprenticeship, though he was an old man, had a large family to provide for, and it was high time for him to set up for himself. Though Laban’s service was hard, and he had cheated him in the first bargain he had made, yet Jacob honestly performs his engagements. Note, A good man, though he swe…
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