1.
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
when Rachel: Genesis 29:31
Rachel envied: Envy and jealousy are most tormenting passions to the breast which harbours them, vexatious to all around, and introductory to much impatience and ungodliness. "Who is able to stand before envy?" Genesis 37:11, 1 Samuel 1:4-8, Psalms 106:16, Proverbs 14:30, Ecclesiastes 4:4, 1 Corinthians 3:3, Galatians 5:21, Titus 3:3, James 3:14, James 4:5
or else I die: Genesis 35:16-19, Genesis 37:11, Numbers 11:15, Numbers 11:29, 1 Kings 19:4, Job 3:1-3, Job 3:11, Job 3:20-22, Job 5:2, Job 13:19, Jeremiah 20:14-18, John 4:3, John 4:8, 2 Corinthians 7:10
Reciprocal: Genesis 11:30 - barren Genesis 15:2 - childless Genesis 29:17 - Rachel Genesis 32:22 - his two wives Genesis 35:18 - her soul Exodus 1:1 - General Exodus 17:2 - Give us Ruth 4:11 - Rachel 2 Kings 4:14 - she hath no child 2 Kings 4:28 - Did I desire Psalms 106:33 - he spake Psalms 127:3 - children Luke 1:7 - they had Acts 7:8 - and Jacob 1 Corinthians 13:4 - envieth
2.
And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
anger: Genesis 31:36, Exodus 32:19, Matthew 5:22, Mark 3:5, Ephesians 4:26
Am I: Genesis 16:2, Genesis 25:21, Genesis 50:19, 1 Samuel 1:5, 1 Samuel 2:5, 1 Samuel 2:6, 2 Kings 5:7
withheld: Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 7:14, Psalms 113:9, Psalms 127:3, Luke 1:42
Reciprocal: Genesis 11:30 - barren Genesis 15:2 - childless Genesis 20:18 - General Genesis 29:17 - Rachel Genesis 29:31 - he opened Genesis 30:22 - opened Genesis 33:5 - children Genesis 48:9 - my sons Exodus 17:2 - Give us Ruth 4:13 - the Lord Job 1:21 - the Lord gave Job 33:6 - in James 3:14 - if
3.
And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees that I may also have children by her.
Behold: Genesis 30:9, Genesis 16:2, Genesis 16:3
she shall: Genesis 50:23, Job 3:12
have children by her: Heb. be built up by her, Genesis 16:2, *marg. Ruth 4:11
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:29 - Bilhah Genesis 46:25 - Bilhah 1 Chronicles 7:13 - the sons of Bilhah Ezekiel 48:1 - Dan
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And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
to wife: Genesis 16:3, Genesis 21:10, Genesis 22:24, Genesis 25:1, Genesis 25:6, Genesis 33:2, Genesis 35:22, 2 Samuel 12:11
Reciprocal: Genesis 30:9 - gave her Genesis 35:25 - General Genesis 37:2 - wives
5.
And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
Reciprocal: Genesis 30:29 - General Genesis 35:22 - Now the sons Numbers 1:5 - Elizur Numbers 1:38 - General 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Reuben Matthew 1:2 - Jacob begat
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And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
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God: Genesis 29:32-35, Psalms 35:24, Psalms 43:1, Lamentations 3:59
Dan: that is, Judging, Genesis 35:25, Genesis 46:23, Genesis 49:16, Genesis 49:17, Deuteronomy 33:22, Jeremiah 13:2, Jeremiah 13:24, Jeremiah 15:14-20
Reciprocal: Genesis 16:2 - obtain children Genesis 29:33 - Because Genesis 30:17 - General Genesis 41:52 - called he Genesis 42:13 - Thy servants Numbers 1:38 - General Deuteronomy 27:13 - Reuben Judges 18:29 - who was 1 Samuel 1:20 - when the time was come about 1 Chronicles 2:2 - Dan Isaiah 7:14 - shall call
7.
And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
am 2257, bc 1747, Genesis 30:7
Reciprocal: Genesis 46:24 - Naphtali Numbers 1:42 - Naphtali Ezekiel 48:3 - Naphtali
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And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
great wrestlings: Heb. wrestlings of God, Genesis 23:6, Genesis 32:24, Exodus 9:28, 1 Samuel 14:15, *marg.
and she: Genesis 35:25, Genesis 46:24, Genesis 49:21, Deuteronomy 33:23
Naphtali: that is, My wrestling, Genesis 32:24, Genesis 32:25, Matthew 4:13, Nephthalim
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:33 - Because Numbers 1:42 - Naphtali 1 Chronicles 2:2 - Naphtali Isaiah 7:14 - shall call Ezekiel 48:3 - Naphtali Jonah 3:3 - So Colossians 2:1 - what
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When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
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left: Genesis 30:17, Genesis 29:35
gave her: Genesis 30:4, Genesis 16:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 16:2 - the Lord Genesis 25:6 - concubines Genesis 29:24 - Zilpah Genesis 30:3 - Behold Genesis 35:26 - And the sons Genesis 37:2 - wives Genesis 46:18 - Zilpah
10.
And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
Reciprocal: Numbers 1:24 - General Numbers 32:1 - the children Ezekiel 48:27 - Gad
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And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
she: Genesis 35:26, Genesis 46:16, Genesis 49:19, Deuteronomy 33:20, Deuteronomy 33:21
Gad: that is, A troop, or company, Isaiah 65:11
Reciprocal: Numbers 1:24 - General Numbers 32:1 - the children 1 Chronicles 2:2 - Gad 1 Chronicles 5:11 - Gad Ezekiel 48:27 - Gad
12.
And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
Reciprocal: Numbers 1:40 - General Ezekiel 48:2 - Asher
13.
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
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Happy am I: Heb. In my happiness, will call. Proverbs 31:28, Song of Solomon 6:9, Luke 1:48
and she: Genesis 35:26, Genesis 46:17, Genesis 49:20, Deuteronomy 33:24, Deuteronomy 33:25
Asher: that is, Happy
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:1 - the daughter Numbers 1:40 - General 2 Samuel 2:9 - Ashurites 1 Chronicles 2:2 - Asher Ezekiel 48:2 - Asher Luke 2:36 - Aser
14.
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
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mandrakes: The mandrake may be the Hebrew dudaim. It is so rendered by all the ancient versions, and is a species of melon, of an agreeable odour. Hasselquist, speaking of Nazareth in Galilee, says, "What I found most remarkable at this village was the great number of mandrakes which grew in a vale below it. I had not the pleasure of seeing this plant in blossom, the fruit now (May 5th, O. S.) hanging ripe on the stem, which lay withered on the ground. From the season in which this mandrake blossoms and ripens fruit, one might form a conjecture that it was Rachel's dudaim. These were brought her in the wheat harvest, which in Galilee is in the month of May, about this time, and the mandrake was now in fruit." The Abbee Mariti describes it as growing "low like a lettuce, to which its leaves have a great resemblance, except that they have a dark green colour. The flowers are purple, and the root is for the most part forked. The fruit, when ripe in the beginning of May, is of the size and colour of a small apple, exceedingly ruddy, and of a most agreeable odour. Our guide thought us fools for suspecting it to be unwholesome." Song of Solomon 7:13
Give me: Genesis 25:30
Reciprocal: Genesis 46:13 - Issachar Ezekiel 48:25 - Issachar
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And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
Numbers 16:9, Numbers 16:10, Numbers 16:13, Isaiah 7:13, Ezekiel 16:47, 1 Corinthians 4:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 30:20 - now will Leviticus 18:18 - to vex her 1 Kings 16:31 - as if it had been a light thing Ezekiel 34:18 - a small
16.
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17.
And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
am 2257, bc 1747, Genesis 30:6, Genesis 30:22, Exodus 3:7, 1 Samuel 1:20, 1 Samuel 1:26, 1 Samuel 1:27, Luke 1:13
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:35 - left bearing Genesis 30:9 - left Genesis 46:15 - Leah Numbers 26:23 - the sons
18.
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
and she: Genesis 35:23, Genesis 46:13, Genesis 49:14, Genesis 49:15, Deuteronomy 33:18, 1 Chronicles 12:32
Issachar: that is, An hire
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:33 - Because Numbers 1:28 - General Numbers 26:23 - the sons Deuteronomy 27:12 - Simeon Revelation 7:7 - Issachar
19.
And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:16 - was Leah Genesis 46:14 - Zebulun Numbers 26:26 - General Ezekiel 48:26 - Zebulun
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And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
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now will: Genesis 30:15, Genesis 29:34
and she: Genesis 35:23, Genesis 46:14, Genesis 49:13, Judges 4:10, Judges 5:14, Psalms 68:27
Zebulun: that is, Dwelling, Matthew 4:13, Zabulon
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:33 - Because Numbers 1:30 - General Numbers 26:26 - General Deuteronomy 27:13 - Reuben Ezekiel 48:26 - Zebulun
21.
And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
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and called: Genesis 34:1-3, Genesis 34:26, Genesis 46:15
Dinah: that is, Judgment
22.
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
remembered: Genesis 8:1, Genesis 21:1, Genesis 29:31, 1 Samuel 1:19, 1 Samuel 1:20, Psalms 105:42
opened: Genesis 30:2, Genesis 21:1, Genesis 21:2, Genesis 25:21, Genesis 29:31, Psalms 113:9, Psalms 127:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 16:2 - the Lord Genesis 19:29 - that God Genesis 29:17 - Rachel Genesis 30:17 - General Genesis 33:2 - Rachel Genesis 35:24 - General Genesis 42:38 - his brother Genesis 43:29 - mother's son Genesis 44:27 - General Genesis 49:22 - a fruitful Ruth 4:13 - the Lord 1 Samuel 1:11 - remember Ezekiel 48:4 - Manasseh Luke 1:25 - hath
23.
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
Be fruitful and multiply, was the blessing of God: barrenness therefore was reckoned a reproach The intense desire of having children, observable among the Jewish women, arose not only from this reproach of barrenness, but from the hope of being the mother of the promised seed, and Him in whom all the nations of the earth were to be blessed. Genesis 29:31, 1 Samuel 1:5, 1 Samuel 1:6, Isaiah 4:1, Luke 1:21, Luke 1:25, Luke 1:27
Reciprocal: Ruth 4:13 - the Lord Psalms 113:9 - maketh Zephaniah 3:15 - hath taken John 16:21 - for
24.
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
And she: Genesis 35:24, Genesis 37:2, Genesis 37:4, Genesis 39:1-23, Genesis 42:6, Genesis 48:1-22, Genesis 49:22-26, Deuteronomy 33:13-17, Ezekiel 37:16, Acts 7:9-15, Hebrews 11:21, Hebrews 11:22, Revelation 7:8
Joseph: that is, Adding, Genesis 35:17, Genesis 35:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 46:19 - Rachel Numbers 1:32 - General Deuteronomy 27:12 - Simeon 1 Chronicles 2:2 - Joseph John 16:21 - for
25.
And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
Send me away: Genesis 24:54, Genesis 24:56
mine: Genesis 18:33, Genesis 31:55
and to: Genesis 24:6, Genesis 24:7, Genesis 26:3, Genesis 27:44, Genesis 27:45, Genesis 28:13, Genesis 28:15, Genesis 31:13, Acts 7:4, Acts 7:5, Hebrews 11:9, Hebrews 11:15, Hebrews 11:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:30 - served Genesis 31:3 - land Exodus 18:23 - and all this
26.
Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
my wives: Genesis 29:19, Genesis 29:20, Genesis 29:30, Genesis 31:26, Genesis 31:31, Genesis 31:41, Hosea 12:12
for thou: Genesis 30:29, Genesis 30:30, Genesis 31:6, Genesis 31:38-40
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:15 - sold us
27.
And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
favour: Genesis 18:3, Genesis 33:15, Genesis 34:11, Genesis 39:3-5, Genesis 39:21, Genesis 47:25, Exodus 3:21, Numbers 11:11, Numbers 11:15, Ruth 2:13, 1 Samuel 16:22, 1 Kings 11:19, Nehemiah 1:11, Nehemiah 2:5, Daniel 1:9, Acts 7:10
the Lord: Genesis 30:30, Genesis 12:3, Genesis 26:24, Genesis 39:2-5, Genesis 39:21-23, Psalms 1:3, Isaiah 6:13, Isaiah 61:9, Isaiah 65:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:22 - General Genesis 21:22 - God Genesis 31:2 - it was Genesis 31:38 - ewes Genesis 39:5 - for Joseph's Genesis 44:5 - divineth Deuteronomy 2:7 - blessed 1 Samuel 18:28 - General 2 Samuel 6:11 - the Lord blessed 1 Chronicles 13:14 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 31:10 - the Lord Acts 27:24 - lo 1 Corinthians 16:2 - as God
28.
And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
29.
And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
Genesis 30:5, Genesis 31:6, Genesis 31:38-40, Matthew 24:45, Ephesians 6:5-8, Colossians 3:22-25, Titus 2:9, Titus 2:10, 1 Peter 2:15, 1 Peter 2:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 4:2 - And Abel Genesis 30:26 - for thou Psalms 144:13 - our sheep
30.
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
increased: Heb. broken forth, Genesis 30:43
and the: Genesis 30:27
since my coming: Heb. at my foot, Deuteronomy 11:10
when: 2 Corinthians 12:14, 1 Timothy 5:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:22 - General Genesis 12:3 - in thee Genesis 26:12 - blessed Genesis 30:26 - for thou Genesis 31:38 - ewes Genesis 39:3 - saw that Judges 15:19 - Enhakkore Job 1:10 - thou hast blessed Ecclesiastes 3:6 - time to get 1 Corinthians 16:2 - as God
31.
And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:
32.
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
of such: Genesis 30:35, Genesis 31:8, Genesis 31:10
33.
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
righteousness: Genesis 31:37, 1 Samuel 26:23, 2 Samuel 22:21, Psalms 37:6
answer: Isaiah 59:12
in time to come: Heb. to-morrow, Exodus 13:14
that shall be: Supply the ellipsis by inserting "if found," after "stolen," and the sense will be clear.
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:32 - before Genesis 31:41 - fourteen Joshua 22:24 - In time to come Proverbs 11:6 - righteousness
34.
And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
35.
And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
he removed: From this it appears, that, as Jacob had agreed to take all the parti-coloured for his wages, and was now only beginning to act upon this agreement, and consequently had as yet no right to any of the cattle, therefore Laban separated from the flock all such cattle as Jacob might afterwards claim in consequence of his bargain, leaving only the black and white with Jacob.
the hand: Genesis 31:9
Reciprocal: Genesis 30:32 - of such Genesis 31:16 - which God Genesis 34:5 - now his Genesis 46:34 - Thy servants'
36.
And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:22 - General
37.
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
Jacob: Genesis 31:9-13
green poplar: Livneh is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness of its leaves, bark, and wood, from lavan to be white., hasel, Jerome, Hiller, Celsius, Dr. Shaw, Bochart, and other learned men, say, that luz is not the "hazel" but the almond-tree, as the word denotes both in Arabic and Syriac.
chestnut tree: The Heb. word ârmon, signifies "the plane-tree," so called from the bark naturally peeling off, and leaving the trunk naked, as its root âram, signifies. Ezekiel 31:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:12 - Lift up Exodus 4:2 - a rod
38.
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39.
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
brought forth: Genesis 31:9-12, Genesis 31:38, Genesis 31:40, Genesis 31:42, Exodus 12:35, Exodus 12:36
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:10 - ringstreaked
40.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
41.
And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive: As the means which Jacob used would not in general produce similar effects, nay, probably the experiment was never in any other instance tried with effect, it is more in harmony with Divine truth to suppose that he was directed by some Divine intimation; and rendered successful, if not by a direct miracle, yet at least by the Lord's giving a new and uncommon bias to the tendency of natural causes. Genesis 30:41
42.
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
43.
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis 30:30, Genesis 13:2, Genesis 24:35, Genesis 26:13, Genesis 26:14, Genesis 28:15, Genesis 31:7, Genesis 31:8, Genesis 31:42, Genesis 32:10, Genesis 33:11, Genesis 36:7, Ecclesiastes 2:7, Ezekiel 39:10, The Lord will, in one way or other, honour those who simply trust his providence.
Reciprocal: Genesis 32:5 - have oxen Genesis 32:14 - General Genesis 46:8 - the names Job 1:10 - substance Psalms 107:38 - suffereth