Genesis 31:15

15 Doesn't he think of us as foreigners? Not only did he sell us, but he has used up the money that was paid for us.

Genesis 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.

Genesis 31:15 In-Context

13 I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you poured olive oil on a stone marker for a holy purpose and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land, and go back to the land of your relatives.'"
14 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there anything left in our father's household for us to inherit?
15 Doesn't he think of us as foreigners? Not only did he sell us, but he has used up the money that was paid for us.
16 Certainly, all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. Now do whatever God has told you."
17 Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels.
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