THEOSISGenesis 31:15Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?
הֲל֧וֹא נָכְרִיּ֛וֹת נֶחְשַׁ֥בְנוּ ל֖וֹ כִּ֣י מְכָרָ֑נוּ וַיֹּ֥אכַל גַּם־אָכ֖וֹל אֶת־כַּסְפֵּֽנוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 29:15He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have.
- Gen 29:20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.
- Gen 29:27Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.
- Gen 29:30And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.
- Neh 5:8And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their peace, and found not what to answer.
- Ex 21:7If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.
- Ex 21:11If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.
- Gen 31:41And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.