Genesis 31:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,

Genesis 31:4 —

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah--His wives and family were in their usual residence. Whether he wished them to be present at the festivities of sheep shearing, as some think; or, because he could not leave his flock, he called them both to come to him, in order that, having resolved on immediate departure, he might communicate his intentions. Rachel and Leah only were called, for the othe…