I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” – Genesis 28:15 (NIV)
The LORD has made everything for its own purpose – Proverbs 16:4 (NASB)
Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel – Genesis 32:28 (NKJV)
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way. – Psalms 37:23 (NKJV)
(v.6)
Rachel: “ewe” – (Brown Driver & Briggs Hebrew Lexicon)
(vv.15-17)
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; – Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NKJV)
Rachel: ewe (Easton’s)
Leah: weary; tired, cow (ISB Encyclopedia)
The Lesson of (vv.18-20)
Love is , Lust is
Love is patient… – 1 Corinthians 13:4 (NASB)
But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
– James 1:3-5 (NKJV)
(v.21)
“…Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to lie with her.” – Genesis 29:21 (NIV)
Lesson of (vv.21-28)
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. – Galatians 6:7 (NKJV)
(v.31)
And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. – Genesis 29:31 (KJV)
Hated: saw-nay – a primitive root; to hate (personally)
KJV – enemy, foe, (be) hate (-ful)
odious, utterly (Strong’s)
(v.32)
Reuben: Behold a son! (Easton’s)
…surely now my husband will love me. – Genesis 29:32 (NASU)
(v.33)
Simeon: hearing (Easton’s)
Unloved: hated; saw-nay; to hate (personally) (Strong’s)
(v.34)
Levi: adhesion (Easton’s), joined (NBD)
(v. 35)
Judah: the praise of the Lord (Easton’s)