THEOSISGenesis 31:46Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יַעֲקֹ֤ב לְאֶחָיו֙ לִקְט֣וּ אֲבָנִ֔ים וַיִּקְח֥וּ אֲבָנִ֖ים וַיַּֽעֲשׂוּ־גָ֑ל וַיֹּ֥אכְלוּ שָׁ֖ם עַל־הַגָּֽל׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Eccl 3:5A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
- Josh 7:26And they gathered together upon him a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day And the wrath of the Lord was turned away from them. And the name of that place was called the Valley of Achor, until this day.
- Josh 4:5And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your God to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your shoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,
- Josh 4:9And Joshua put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark of the covenant: and they are there until this present day.
- Gen 31:37And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.
- Josh 4:20And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Joshua pitched in Galgal,
- Josh 4:24As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till we passed through:
- Gen 31:32But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.