And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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Gill's Exposition
Are we not accounted of him strangers?.... He had not treated them as children, nor even as freeborn persons; but as if they were foreigners that he had taken in war, or bought of others; or at least,…
- Jacob’s Flight from Haran 19. תרפים terāpı̂ym, Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the Pentateuch. It is…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Is there yet i.e. "we have no reason any longer to expect." Leah and Rachel had both been alienated from their father by his disregard of their feelings and by his mean grasping policy.
portion or…
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