創世記 31:4-13 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:5

And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before ( vide supra ) ; but the God of my father —literally, and the Elohim of my father , the term Elohim employed by Jacob not being due to " the vagueness of the religious knowledge" possessed by his wives (Hengstenberg), but to a desire on his own part either to distinguish the God of his father from the gods of the nations, or the idols which Laban worshipped ('Speaker's Commentary'), or... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:6

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. The term Jacob here uses for power is derived from an unused onomatopoetic root, signifying to pant, and hence to exert one's strength. If, therefore, the assertion now made to his wives was not an unblushing falsehood, Jacob could not have been the monster of craft and deception depicted by some (Kalisch); while, if it was, it must have required considerable effrontery to appeal to his wives' knowledge for a confirmation of what... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:7

And your father hath deceived me ,— הֵתֵל , the hiph. of תָּלַל , means to rob or plunder (Furst), or to cause to fall, as in the cognate languages, whence to deceive (Gesenius)— and changed my wages ten times ;— i . e . many times, as in Numbers 14:22 ; Job 19:3 (Rosenmüller, Bush, Kalisch, Lange); as often as possible, the number ten expressing the idea of completeness (Keil, Murphy)— but God (Elohim, Jacob purposing to say that he had been protected, not by human... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:8

If he ( i . e . Laban) said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; —by the original contract Jacob had been promised all the parti-colored animals ( Genesis 30:32 );" here it seems as if Laban, struck with the remarkable increase of these, took the earliest opportunity of so modifying the original stipulation as to limit Jacob's portion to one sort only, viz. the speckled. Yet this dishonorable breach of faith on the part of Laban was of no avail; for, when the next lambing season... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:9

Thus —literally, and (as the result of this)— God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. In ascribing to God what he had himself effected by (so-called) fraud, this language of Jacob appears to some inexcusable (Kalisch); in passing over his own stratagem in silence Jacob has been charged with not telling the whole truth to his wives (Keil). A more charitable consideration of Jacob's statement, however, discerns-in it an evidence of his piety, which... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:10

And it came to pus at the time that the cattle conceived (this obviously goes back to the commencement of the six years' service), that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams — עַתֻּדים , he-goats, from an unused root, to be ready, perhaps because ready and prompt for fighting (Gesenius, sub voce ) — which leaped (literally, going up ) upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled . The grisled ( beruddim , from barad , to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:11

And the angel of God —literally, the angel (or Maleach ) of Elohim , i . e . of the God who was with me and protecting me, though himself continuing unseen— spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I ( vide Genesis 20:1 , Genesis 20:11 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:12

And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled . Since all the parti-colored animals had already been removed ( Genesis 30:35 ), this vision must have been intended to assure him that the flocks would produce speckled and spotted progeny all the same as if the ringstraked and grisled rams and he-goats had not been removed from their midst (cf. Kurtz, § 78). To insist upon a contradiction between this account of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:13

I am the God of Bethel ,—the angel here identifies himself with Jehovah ( vide Genesis 28:13 ). Contrary to usual custom, הָאֵל , though in the construct, state, has the art.— where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred — i . e . to the land of Canaan, which was Jacob's true inheritance. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 31:1-55

- Jacob’s Flight from Haran19. תרפים terāpı̂ym, Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the Pentateuch. It is always in the plural number. The root does not appear in Biblical Hebrew. It perhaps means “to live well,” intransitively (Gesenius, Roedig.), “to nourish,” transitively (Furst). The teraphim were symbols or representatives of the Deity, as Laban calls them his gods. They seem to have been busts... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 31:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 31:1-55

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