Chuàngshìjì 29:27

27 Nǐ wèi zhège mǎn le qī rì , wǒ jiù bǎ nàge yĕ gĕi nǐ , nǐ zaì wèi tā fúshì wǒ qī nián .

Chuàngshìjì 29:27 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 29:27

Fulfil her week
Not Rachel's week, or a week of years of servitude for her, but Leah's week, or the week of seven days of feasting for her marriage; for a marriage feast used to be kept seven days, according to the Jewish writers ^F20, and as it seems from ( Judges 14:17 ) ; and the Targum of Jerusalem fully expresses this sense,

``fulfil the week of the days of the feast of Leah;''

and to the same sense the Targum of Jonathan, Aben Ezra and Jarchi:

and we will give this also;
meaning Rachel that stood by; and the sense is, that he and his wife, if he had any, or his friends about him, would give to Jacob Rachel also to be his wife, upon the following condition:

for the service which thou shall serve with me yet seven other years;
which shows the avaricious temper of the man.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 T. Hieros. Moed Katon, fol. 80. 4. Pirke Eliezer, c. 16, 36.

Chuàngshìjì 29:27 In-Context

25 Dào le zǎochen , Yǎgè yī kàn shì Lìyà , jiù duì Lābān shuō , nǐ xiàng wǒ zuò de shì shénme shì ne . wǒ fúshì nǐ , bù shì wèi Lājié ma , nǐ wèishénme qī hòng wǒ ne .

26 Lābān shuō , dà nǚér hái méiyǒu gĕi rén , xiān bǎ xiǎo nǚér gĕi rén , zaì wǒmen zhè dìfang méiyǒu zhè guīju .

27 Nǐ wèi zhège mǎn le qī rì , wǒ jiù bǎ nàge yĕ gĕi nǐ , nǐ zaì wèi tā fúshì wǒ qī nián .

28 Yǎgè jiù rúcǐ xíng . mǎn le Lìyà de qī rì , Lābān biàn jiāng nǚér Lājié gĕi Yǎgè wéi qì .

29 Lābān yòu jiāng bìnǚ Bìlā gĕi nǚér Lājié zuò shǐnǚ .