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Genesis 29:19

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19 Toen zeide Laban: Het is beter, dat ik haar aan u geve, dan dat ik haar aan een anderen man geve; blijf bij mij.

Genesis 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.

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Genesis 29:19 In-Context

17 Doch Lea had tedere ogen; maar Rachel was schoon van gedaante, en schoon van aangezicht.
18 En Jakob had Rachel lief; en hij zeide: Ik zal u zeven jaren dienen, om Rachel, uw kleinste dochter.
19 Toen zeide Laban: Het is beter, dat ik haar aan u geve, dan dat ik haar aan een anderen man geve; blijf bij mij.
20 Alzo diende Jakob om Rachel zeven jaren; en die waren in zijn ogen als enige dagen, omdat hij haar liefhad.
21 Toen zeide Jakob tot Laban: Geef mijn huisvrouw, want mijn dagen zijn vervuld, dat ik tot haar inga.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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