Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money." — Genesis 31:15 (ASV)
He hath sold us. —There is a marked asperity towards their father in the answer of Jacob’s wives, and not only the petted Rachel but the neglected Leah joins in it. Now, though his sale of them to Jacob had been more open than Eastern good manners usually allowed, and though he seems to have acted meanly in giving no portion with them, yet these were old sores, long since healed and forgiven. Laban must have been stingy, grasping, and over-reaching in recent times, to have kept the memory of old wrongs so fresh in the minds of his daughters.