9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
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And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
For 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.
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
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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