Genesis 31:15

For all the riches which God hath taken from our father,.... And given to Jacob for his labour:

that is ours, and our children's; it belonged to us by the law of nature, before it came into thine…

- 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…

Are we not counted of him strangers? - Rachel and Leah, who well knew the disposition of their father, gave him here his true character. He has treated us as strangers - as slaves whom he had a right…

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…

strangers i.e. foreigners, people of another kindred or country.

sold us Referring to the bargain by which Jacob had obtained his two wives at the price of fourteen years" service (Gen 29:15-20; Gen…