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סכת (sûkkôth) refers to Sukkoth, meaning “booths,” which consisted of poles forming a roof covered with branches, leaves, or gras…

THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19-35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
Abraham beg…

Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themse…

Receive my present at my hand. This noun may be taken passively as well as actively. If understood actively, the sense will be, “Accept th…

And Jacob said, nay, I pray you Do not say so, as the Targum of Jonathan supplies it, or do not refuse my present:

Jacob, having by prayer committed his case to God, went on his way. Come what will, nothing can come amiss to him whose heart is fixed, trusting in…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes