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Genesis 31:35 KJV
Genesis · chapter 31 · verse 35
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.Genesis 31:35 · King James Version
Genesis 31:35 in context
33And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
34Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
35And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
36And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
37Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- displeasechârâhto glow or grow warmH2734 →
- displeaseʻayinan eyeH5869 →
- searchedchâphasto seekH2664 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- cannotyâkôlto be able, literally or morallyH3201 →
- customdereka roadH1870 →
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We have here the reasoning, not to say the rallying, that took place between Laban and Jacob at their meeting, in that mountain which was afterwards called Gilead, Gen 31:25. Here is, I. The high charge which Laban exhibited against him. He accuses him, 1. As a renegade that had unjustly deserted his service.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-35