Genesi 29:19

19 E Labano disse: Meglio è che io la dia a te, che ad un altro uomo; stattene pur meco.

Genesi 29:19 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 29:19

And Laban said
Deceitfully, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, pretending great respect for Jacob, and that what he had proposed was very agreeable to him, when he meant to impose upon him:

[it is] better that I should give her to thee, than that I should give
her to another man;
by which he not only intimates that he preferred him, a relation, to another man, a stranger; but as if he did not insist upon the servitude for her, but would give her to him; unless he means upon the terms proposed, and so it should seem by what follows:

abide with me:
the term of seven years, and serve me; suggesting, that then he agreed Rachel should be his wife; and so Jacob, a plain hearted man, understood him; but he designed no such thing.

Genesi 29:19 In-Context

17 E Lea avea gli occhi teneri; ma Rachele era formosa, e di bello aspetto.

18 E Giacobbe amava Rachele; e disse a Labano: Io ti servirò sett’anni per Rachele, tua figliuola minore.

19 E Labano disse: Meglio è che io la dia a te, che ad un altro uomo; stattene pur meco.

20 E Giacobbe servì per Rachele lo spazio di sette anni; e quelli gli parvero pochi giorni, per l’amore ch’egli le portava.

21 E Giacobbe disse a Labano: Dammi la mia moglie; perciocchè il mio termine è compiuto; e lascia che io entri da lei.