And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
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Gill's Exposition
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone,.... Or, "in going wouldest go" (i), was determined upon it, and in haste to do it:
because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, or "desiring…
- 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…
We have here the reasoning, not to say the rallying, that took place between Laban and Jacob at their meeting, in that mountain which was afterwards called Gilead, Gen 31:25. Here is,
I. The high…
Cambridge Bible
sons … daughters Laban's grandchildren; cf. Gen 31:31; Gen 31:31.
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