54Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
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And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast. …
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 43-55)We have here the compromising of the matter between Laban and Jacob. Laban had nothing to say in reply to Jacob’s remonstrance: he could neither justify himself nor condemn Jacob, but was convicted by his own conscience of the wrong he had done him; and therefore desires to hear no more of the matter He is not willing to own himself in a fault, nor to ask Jacob’s forgiveness, and make him satisfac…
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