35And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-35)We have here the reasoning, not to say the rallying, that took place between Laban and Jacob at their meeting, in that mountain which was afterwards called Gilead , Gen. 31:25. Here is, I. The high charge which Laban exhibited against him. He accuses him, 1. As a renegade that had unjustly deserted his service. To represent Jacob as a criminal, he will have it thought that he intended kindness to…
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