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Greed Severs Family Bonds
Commentators explain that Rachel and Leah felt like "foreigners" because their father, Laban, had treated them like property. He "sold" them to Jacob for fourteen years of labor and then consumed the payment that should have been their dowry. Scholars point to this as a stark example of how covetousness and an overvaluing of wealth can destroy natural affection within a family.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 31:1–55
18th Century
Theologian
תרפים terāpı̂ym — Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three times in this chapte…
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 31:15
19th Century
Bishop
He hath sold us. —There is a marked asperity towards their father in the answer of Jacob’s wives, and not only the petted…
John Gill
On Genesis 31:15
17th Century
Pastor
Are we not accounted of him strangers ? &c.] He had not treated them as children, nor even as freeborn persons; but as if…
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Matthew Henry
On Genesis 31:1–21
17th Century
Minister
The affairs of these families are related very minutely, while what are called the great events of states and kingdoms at that period are not menti…