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- †. Gen 31:51 . . And Laban said to Jacob: Here is this mound and here the pillar which I have set up between you and me: Laban didn't set up anything. He only participated in dedicating the pillar. Jacob and his sons set it up with their own hands. And it was all their own idea, not his. †...

- †. Gen 31:50 . . If you ill-treat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters-- though no one else be about, remember, God Himself will be witness between you and me. Had Jacob ever ill treated Rachel and Leah all those years in Laban's employ? When had the girls ever complained to...

- †. Gen 31:42 . . Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, been with me, you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God took notice of my plight and the toil of my hands, and He gave judgment last night. Anyone there that day, who had the slightest conscience...

- †. Gen 31:33-35 . . So Laban went into Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tents of the two maidservants; but he did not find them. Leaving Leah's tent, he entered Rachel's tent. . . . Rachel, meanwhile, had taken the idols and placed them in the camel cushion and sat on them; and Laban...

- †. Gen 31:29b . . but the God of your father The "god of your father" is all the same as saying your family's god. There a humorous difference between Jacob's family god and Laban's family gods. Jacob's family god can't be kidnapped and carried around in a saddle bag. †. Gen 31:29c . . said...

- †. Gen 31:22 . . On the third day, Laban was told that Jacob had fled. Laban was off some distance from home shearing his sheep, which usually included a festival of some sort. The messengers probably waited till the shearing was done, and the party was over, before laying the bad news on ol'...

- †. Gen 31:14-15 . .Then Rachel and Leah replied and said to him: Have we then still a share and an inheritance in our father's house? Are we not considered by him as strangers? For he has sold us and even totally consumed our money! Now the truth comes out. All along the girls had resented...

- †. Gen 31:1 . . Now he heard the things that Laban's sons were saying: Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from that which was our father's he has built up all this wealth. People have a habit of using the "all" word just a little to the extreme. Jacob certainly didn't take all of...

- †. Gen 30:40a . . And Jacob culled the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; That trick was expected to have the same effect as looking at striped rods. †. Gen 30:40b-43 . . and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with...

- †. Gen 30:28 . . And he said: Specify your wage to me and I will give it. The wage Laban had in mind wasn't an hourly rate or monthly salary like we typically think of wages. Pay was a separate matter to be negotiated later. The deal they would make concerned what it would cost Laban to keep...

- †. Gen 30:22a . . Now God remembered Rachel; Does that mean the omniscient Almighty had somehow forgotten all about her? (chuckle) No. God's memory works just fine. But I think God has a day planner, sort of like the appointment books that professional people utilize to plan their schedules...

- †. Gen 30:17 . . God heeded Leah, and she conceived and bore him a fifth son. God was favorably inclined to grant Leah's wishes. But why doesn't God grant the wishes of all barren women? Is that fair? Why is God sensitive to some while ignoring the feelings of others? I wish I could answer...

- †. Gen 30:7-8 . . Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. And Rachel said; A fateful contest I waged with my sister; yes, and I have prevailed. So she named him Naphtali. rayyyrrr! scratch! Man that woman was scrappy! No second place winner; Rachel would keep kicking...

- †. Gen 30:1a . .When Rachel saw that she had borne Jacob no children, she became envious of her sister; Sibling rivalry is bad enough. But when siblings compete for the affections of the same love object, it's all the worse. I don't know what it is about kin, but it's much easier to compete...

- †. Gen 29:31 . .The Lord saw that Leah was unloved and he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. God didn't make Rachel barren. She was already that way. And Leah was too. In fact, every one of the matriarchs were barren women. It must have been in their genes. But The Lord elected to repair...

- †. Gen 29:26 . . Laban said; It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the older. Jacob lived in "our place" for seven years. I tend to think he knew full well their customs. Perhaps Jacob expected the locals would make an exception for him because he was a rich boy...

- †. Gen 29:21 . .Then Jacob said to Laban; Give me my wife, for my time is fulfilled, that I may cohabit with her. The word "cohabit" is not actually in the Hebrew. It should read "go near". What Jacob said, in the common colloquialism of our day, is what men sometimes say when they want to...

- †. Gen 29:14b . .When he had stayed with him a month's time, Well now . . isn't that a coincidence? Just when the rent was due. †. Gen 29:15 . . Laban said to Jacob: Just because you are a kinsman, should you serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be? I have no doubt Jacob was...

- †. Gen 29:7 . . He said: It is still broad daylight, too early to round up the animals; water the flock and take them to pasture. Jacob just blew into the neighborhood and he's already telling strangers what to do! No doubt an attitude he brought with him from Isaac's ranch. Down there the...

- The Greatest (a.k.a. Cassius Clay) followed a spiritual philosophy called Universal Sufism. If the Bible has it right, then the three-time heavyweight boxing champion is now coping with something far, far worse than Parkinson's disease. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=