Verse Genesis 29:11. _JACOB KISSED RACHEL_] A simple and pure method by which the primitive inhabitants of the earth testified their friendship to each other, first abused by _hypocrites_, who preten...
- Jacob’s Marriage 6. רחל _rāchēl_, Rachel, “a ewe.” 16. לאה _lê'âh_, Leah, “wearied.” 24. זלפה _zı̂lpâh_, Zilpah, “drop?” 29. בלהה _bı̂lhâh_, Bilhah, “timidity.” 32. ראוּבן
CHAPTER 29 JACOB WITH LABAN _ 1. Jacob's arrival at Padan-aram (Genesis 29:1)_ 2. His service for Rachel (Genesis 29:15) 3. Laban's deception (Genesis 29:21) 4. Jacob receives Rachel ...
JACOB SERVES SEVEN YEARS FOR RACHEL. LABAN SUBSTITUTES LEAH AND SECURES FOURTEEN YEARS'SERVICE IN EXCHANGE FOR THE TWO. Apart from bits of P (Genesis 29:24; Genesis 29:28_ b_, Genesis 29:29) the secti...
KISSED. The Eastern greeting....
_Jacob kissed … wept_ This demonstrative display of feeling is Homeric in its simplicity. The suddenness of Jacob's opportune meeting with his relatives, the removal of doubt and anxiety from his mind...
PART FORTY-ONE THE STORY OF JACOB: HIS EXPERIENCES IN PADDAN-ARAM (Genesis 29:1 to Genesis 31:16) The Biblical Account 1. Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the...
_AND WHILE HE YET SPAKE WITH THEM, RACHEL CAME WITH HER FATHER'S SHEEP: FOR SHE KEPT THEM._ While he yet spake ... Rachel came. Among the pastoral tribes the young unmarried daughters of the greatest...
JACOB IN MESOPOTAMIA WITH LABAN The divine care and blessing promised to Jacob at Bethel (Genesis 28:15) are illustrated in the narrative of the sojourn of the patriarch at Haran, which apparently las...
WEPT] with joy at finding himself among friends again....
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 29 JACOB MEETS RACHEL V1 Then Jacob continued his journey. He came to the land where the people in the east lived. V2 As he looked, he saw a well...
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...
JACOB KISSED RACHEL... AND WEPT. — Jacob first made himself, useful to Rachel, and then discloses to her who he is, claims her as a cousin, and kisses her. Then, overcome with joy at this happy termin...
וַ יִּשַּׁ֥ק יַעֲקֹ֖ב לְ רָחֵ֑ל וַ יִּשָּׂ֥א
JACOB IN LABAN'S HOME Genesis 29:1 Well might Jacob lift up his feet! See margin. When we are sure of God we receive strength that enables us to _run_ with patience the race that is set before us. Th...
Pursuing his journey after his experience at Luz, now called Beth-el, Jacob came into "the land of the children of the east." Here the next twenty years of his life were to be spent, during which he a...
THE DECEIVER IS DECEIVED When Jacob came to a well in a field in northern Mesopotamia, he inquired where he was. He learned he was near Haran and soon met Rachel, his uncle Laban's daughter, who was c...
_Kissed her, according to the custom of the country, (chap. xxiv. 26,) having told her who he was. He was not so young, that she could suspect him guilty of an unbecoming levity, being above 77 years...
Brother, here means no more than a relation....
Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 THROUGH 35. I have no doubt that in the two wives, as I have said, we have the Gentiles and Israel: Rachel first loved on the earth, but not possessed; but...
AND JACOB KISSED RACHEL,.... Which he did in a way of courtesy and civility; this was done after he had acquainted her with his relation to her; he saluted her upon that: AND LIFTED UP HIS VOICE, AND...
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. Ver. 11. _Lifted up his voice, and wept._] For joy, that he had so happily lighted upon his kinswoman. It argued also his great affection,...
1 Iacob commeth to the well of Haran. 9 He taketh acquaintance of Rachel. 13 Laban enterteineth him. 18 Iacob couenanteth for Rachel. 23 He is deceiued with Leah. 28 He marrieth also Rachel, and...
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. His age and relationship made such an intimate greeting altogether proper, and even now bridal affection may have arisen in his heart, for t...
Jacob Meets Rachel...
SECOND SECTION _Jacob’s wives and children. Jacob and Rachel, Laban’s youngest daughter. First and second treaty with Laban. His involuntary consummation of marriage with Leah. The double marriage. L...
JACOB MEETS RACHEL AND LABAN After many days of travel Jacob came to the land of his relatives. He could not phone to find his directions to their home, nor did he have any street and house number, bu...
9-14 See Rachel's humility and industry. Nobody needs to be ashamed of honest, useful labour, nor ought it to hinder any one's preferment. When Jacob understood that this was his kinswoman, he was ver...
No text from Poole on this verse....
These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...
Genesis 29:11 Jacob H3290 kissed H5401 (H8799) Rachel H7354 up H5375 (H8799) voice H6963 wept H1058 ...
‘And Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father.' The meeting is emotio...
CONTENTS: Jacob and Laban, two bargain makers, meet. CHARACTERS: Jacob, Laban, Rachael, Leah, Reuben, Levi, Judah. CONCLUSION: The believer who has erred may not be forsaken of God, but he is permit...
Genesis 29:1. _Jacob went on his journey._ Our version fails here to express the lively sense of the Hebrew, as in most versions. _Levabit pedes;_ he tripped along with light feet, being now assured t...
_Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east_ JACOB’S EXPERIENCE ON HIS JOURNEY I. THAT GOD’S PRESENCE WITH HIM MADE HIS DUTIES AND HIS TROUBLES LIGHT. He who ca...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 29:1. Went on his journey.] Heb. _Lifted up his feet._ (See Psalms 74:3.) The idea is that he journeyed with alacrity. _Rashi_, the Jewish commentator, says, “his heart was el...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 29:1 THEN JACOB WENT ON HIS JOURNEY (literally, _lifted up his feet—a _graphic description of traveling. Inspired by new hopes, and conscious of loftier aims than when he fled from...
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of the east. And he looked, behold there was a well in the field, and, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that...
kissed. Genesis 29:13 Genesis 27:26 Genesis 33:4 Genesis 43:30 Genesis 4