15Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
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And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be? …
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. …
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
Commentary
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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