39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
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Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. …
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
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.
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-43)Here is Jacob’s honest policy to make his bargain more advantageous to himself than it was likely to be. If he had not taken some course to help himself, it would have been a bad bargain indeed, which he knew Laban would never consider, or rather would be well pleased to see him a loser by, so little did Laban consult any one’s interest but his own. Now Jacob’s contrivances were, 1. To set peeled…
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