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Genesis 31:15
15He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women. And after he sold us, he wasted the money you paid him for us.
Genesis 31:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
- New International Version (NIV)Does he not regard us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Are we not considered strangers by him? For he has sold us, and also completely consumed our money.
Context of Genesis 31:15
13I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, the place where you anointed the pillar of stone and made your vow to me. Now get ready and leave this country and return to the land of your birth.’” 14Rachel and Leah responded, “That’s fine with us! We won’t inherit any of our father’s wealth anyway. He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women. And after he sold us, he wasted the money you paid him for us. 16All the wealth God has given you from our father legally belongs to us and our children. So go ahead and do whatever God has told you.” 17So Jacob put his wives and children on camels,
Read all of Genesis 31Genesis 31:15 word by word
הֲל֧וֹא נָכְרִיּ֛וֹת נֶחְשַׁ֥בְנוּ ל֖וֹ כִּ֣י מְכָרָ֑נוּ וַיֹּ֥אכַל גַּם־אָכ֖וֹל אֶת־כַּסְפֵּֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Genesis 31:15
- Genesis 31:41Yes, for twenty years I slaved in your house! I worked for fourteen years earning your two daughters, and then six more years for your flock. And you changed my wages ten times!
- Genesis 29:15Laban said to him, “You shouldn’t work for me without pay just because we are relatives. Tell me how much your wages should be.”
- Genesis 30:26Let me take my wives and children, for I have earned them by serving you, and let me be on my way. You certainly know how hard I have worked for you.”
- Exodus 21:7“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.
- Nehemiah 5:8At the meeting I said to them, “We are doing all we can to redeem our Jewish relatives who have had to sell themselves to pagan foreigners, but you are selling them back into slavery again. How often must we redeem them?” And they had nothing to say in their defense.
Commentaries on Genesis 31:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Are we not counted of him strangers? - Rachel and Leah, who well knew the disposition of their father, gave him here his true character. He has treated us as strangers - as slaves whom he had a right to dispose of as he pleased; in consequence, he hath sold us - disposed of us on the mere principle of gaining by the sale. And hath quite devoured also our money - Has applied to his own use the profits of the sale, and has allowed us neither portion nor…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-55Verses 1-55 - Jacob‘s Flight from Haran 19. 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-16The women quickly agreed to go with Jacob because God had blessed him. They were very willing to leave Laban, who had wasted their wealth (the property meant to support them). They understood that what God gave Jacob would also belong to them.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-211. he heard the words of Laban's sons--It must have been from rumor that Jacob got knowledge of the invidious reflections cast upon him by his cousins; for they were separated at the distance of three days' journey.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Genesis 31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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