Genesis 29:14 - Exposition

And Laban said unto him (giving utterance to the impression Jacob's recital had produced upon his mind), Surely thou art my bone and my flesh— i.e. my blood relation (cf. 9:2 ; 2 Samuel 5:1 ). Laban meant that Jacob had satisfactorily proved himself Rebekah's son. And he abode with him the space of a month —literally, a month of days (cf. Genesis 41:1 ; Numbers 11:20 ), or a month as regards time, "the second substantive describing the general notion of which the first is a specification" (Kalisch).

HOMILETICS