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16For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

Genesis 31:16

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

  • Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

  • And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

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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