21:13 Concubine's son will also be blessed.
21:25 The beginning of conflicts in middle-east.
22:8 "God will see to it." A typical words of faith representing Abraham's loyalty. What great faith!
23:9-11 Witness is the proof; a verbal contract is valid.
24:2 "under my thigh" means "under my penis", which indicates it is an oath of significance. (Ge 47:29) By the way, this sevant is best of the best!
24:3 Never get hybrid matrimony to keep the faith and culture. Never intermarry with Canaanites, who worship another "Baalim" Dt 7:3, 1 Co 7:39
24:12-14 Using signs as a proof and confirm of God's will!
24:16 "...stunningly beautiful. A pure virgin." Some of the necessary conditions for choosing wives. (?)
24:65 A veil to cover with is a respect to show.
24:67 What kind of love is even stronger than the maternal?
25:23 Malachi 1:2-3; according to Hebrew, "I love" here means "to choose", while "hate" here not. Whether each person is to be used or not by God is purely out of His grace, not through personal efforts. The grace had already been destined even before people were born.
25:34 That's why God preferred Jacob to Essau. He shrugged off his firstborn rights, the blessing of God.
26:7 The same old story as Abraham's...
26:11 When a woman belongs to a man she loves and who loves her likewise, she is totally subject to her lover in terms of both mental and physical interaction of any sign or suggestion of wooing from others.
27:3 What a great power a blessing is! So a cursing!
27:19 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob's trilogy.
28:6 To hold firm Isreal's own belief in God, not mixing with other Gentiles, both in lineage and in culture.
28:16 Jacob is a person who fears God and respects Him. He is sure to be blessed.
29:10 力天使之威容!
29:17 "Leah had nice eyes, but Rachel was stunningly beautiful." NIV: "weak eyes" or "delicate eyes"
29:20 The power of love!
29:26 Laban broke his promise, but Jacob tolerated it, for another 7 year!
29:31 God wishes both Jacob's wives would be loved and give birth to his children. He wishes, and things just happen.
30:3 Rachel's self-survival.
30:15 Mandrakes in Hebrew are דודאים (dûdã'im), meaning “love plant”. Among certain Asian cultures, it is believed to ensure conception.[citation needed] Most interpreters hold Mandragora officinarum to be the plant intended in Genesis 30:14 ("love plant") and Song of Songs 7:13 ("the mandrakes send out their fragrance"). A number of other plants have been suggested such as blackberries, Zizyphus Lotus, the "sidr" of the Arabs, the banana, lily, citron, and fig. (Courtesy to Wikipedia)
30:18 The sacrifice of love - giving her own husband to other women for more descendants - the values of ancient times. (?)
30:27 1. Laban was still more or less influenced by paganish rituals to know things through "divine inquiry".2. Laban knew well that who was on the side of God talked. He was smart to choose the right side.
30:31 The ancient ways, or superstition, of euginics and breeding. Without God's permit, nothing's gonna happen or be valid.
31:19 "The household gods" is also another symbol from paganish, which represented the sovereignty over host's assets.
31:23 God warned Laban not to touch "His man". What a powerful boss!
31:35 Rachel stood for her husband against her father. Ge 2:24
31:36 Jacob finally lost his temper! He complaited to Laban for what he's done to him over the last 20 years. Maybe God already knew this, so He warned Laban in advance not to touch His guy. Pr 14:29, 16:32
32:7 Jacob's self-survival and little faith.
32:13-23 Jacob's sophisticatedness. What a sly guy!
32:24 God's second cosplay, at the ford of the Jabbok, as a wrestler. ^^ (First is in Ge 18:1)
32:28 "Isreal" means "God-Wrestler"
32:24-32 Why did God let Jacob's hip be out of joint? A little flaw makes him humble and more reliable to God, which will be good to him in the future.
33:14 He should have gone to Bethel, but he told his brother he was heading to Seir, where he never was. He's always dishonest and didn't trust humans, even his brother.
33:16 God told him to Bethel, but he stayed in Shechem, where a tragedy happened to Dinah, Jacob's daughter in Chapter 34.
34:5 Suffering such great pain, Jacob still stayed calm. A virtue of tolerance.
34:15 A plot to punish and revenge the enemies at will from Jacob's sons, like their father.
35:22-26 Jacob's twelve sons, the future 12 clans of Isreal.
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Bible Study - Genesis 21-36 (3.2/66)
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