14And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Jacob is here taking up a resolution immediately to quit his uncle’s service, to take what he had and go back to Canaan. This resolution he took up upon a just provocation, by divine direction, and with the advice and consent of his wives. I. Upon a just provocation; for Laban and his sons had become very cross and ill-natured towards him, so that he could not stay among them with safety or satisf…
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