Genesi 31:15

15 Non fummo noi da lui reputate straniere, quando egli ci vendette? ed oltre a ciò egli ha tutti mangiati i nostri danari.

Genesi 31:15 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 31:15

Are we not accounted of him strangers?
&c.] He had not treated them as children, nor even as freeborn persons; but as if they were foreigners that he had taken in war, or bought of others; or at least, that they were born bondmaids in his house, and so had a right to sell them as he had: for he hath sold us;
he had sold them to Jacob for fourteen years' service, as if they had been his slaves, instead of giving dowries with them as his children: and hath quite devoured also our money;
that which he got by the servitude of Jacob, instead of giving it to them as their portion; he spent it on himself and his sons, and there was nothing left for them.

Genesi 31:15 In-Context

13 Io son l’Iddio di Betel, dove tu ugnesti quel piliere, e dove tu mi facesti quel voto; ora levati, e partiti di questo paese, e ritornatene nel tuo natio paese.

14 E Rachele e Lea risposero, e dissero: Abbiamo noi più alcuna parte od eredità in casa di nostro padre?

15 Non fummo noi da lui reputate straniere, quando egli ci vendette? ed oltre a ciò egli ha tutti mangiati i nostri danari.

16 Conciossiachè tutte queste facoltà che Iddio ha tolte a nostro padre, già fosser nostre e de’ nostri figliuoli; ora dunque fa’ pur tutto quello che Iddio ti ha detto.

17 E Giacobbe si levò, e mise i suoi figliuoli e le sue mogli in su de’ cammelli.