THEOSISGenesis 31:35Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.
וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־אָבִ֗יהָ אַל־יִ֙חַר֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י אֲדֹנִ֔י כִּ֣י ל֤וֹא אוּכַל֙ לָק֣וּם מִפָּנֶ֔יךָ כִּי־דֶ֥רֶךְ נָשִׁ֖ים לִ֑י וַיְחַפֵּ֕שׂ וְלֹ֥א מָצָ֖א אֶת־הַתְּרָפִֽים׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Lev 19:32Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.
- Ex 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.
- Lev 19:3Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
- Eph 6:1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.
- Gen 18:11Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women.
- Gen 18:12And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?
- 1 Pet 2:18Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward.
- Lev 15:19The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of blood, shall be separated seven days.