Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
16. For all the riches which God has taken from our father. Rachel and Leah confirm the speech of Jacob; but yet in a profane and common manner, not with a lively and pure sense of religion. For they only make a passing allusion to the fact, that God, in pity to his servant, had deigned to honor him with peculiar favor; and in the...
Jacob is here taking up a resolution immediately to quit his uncle's service, to take what he had and go back to Canaan. This resolution he took up upon a just provocation, by divine direction, and with the advice and consent of his wives. I.
Commenting on Genesis 31:1-16
Then Jacob rose up,.... And went with them to Laban's house, where his children were, as is plain from Rachel's theft, Gen 31:19, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; which were his own, see Gen 30:43; creatures fit for travelling; on these he set his wives, Rachel and Leah, and his concubine wives, Bilhah and Zilpah; for these went with him, as...