_ and the froſt bynight, and my llgep departed trom mine
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| T Heb-/elr-
Sane
and called his brethren to eatbread, andthey did cat
+ Through my extraordinary thoughtfulnefs and care aboutthy Cattel, eſpecially in caſes of danger.
41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy houſe: T ſerved thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and fix years for thy cattel ; and thou haft changed my wages ten times, |
42 Exceptthe Godof my father, and the God of A. braham, and the fear of Iſaac, had been with me: ſure- ly thou hadft ſent me away now empty: God hath ſecn my attliction »,, and the labour of mine hands, and re- buked thee yeſternight.
{ ( 7:2.) The God whom my Father Iſzac worſhips with reverence and godly fear, as appears by comparing, ver: 53. The A is here put tor the objeR, as it frequently is ; and particularly) God iscal- led our fear, 1ja. 8. 13. And fear is one of God's Names amongſt the Rabbins. He calls him not 1ſaac's God, but hi- fear, becauſe Iſaac was yet alive, andin the ſtate of probation, and ſerved God with fear and trembling. See Gen. 27.33- The Jewso ſerve that God isnot called the God of any particular perſon,/ as of Abraham, Iaac and Faceb, till after their death- m With compaſſion and in« tention of good to me for it. God's ſeeing is oft uſed for his reliev- ing and helping, as Gen: 16. 13. and 29. 32. Exod, 3. 7,9. Orhath ſhewed or proved it, to wit, that he hath ſeen, &c./ Compare Gen: 20. 16. Either way it is an Ellipfis of the Pronoun, which is uſual, as appear+ by comparing 1 K:gs 10. 75, with 2 Chron:9. 6. and Pſal. 41. 9. with Joh, .3 18.
43 AndLaban anſwered, andſaid unto Jacob, Theſe daughters are my daughters, and theſe children are my children, and theſe catrel are my cattel, andall that thouſceſt is mine: and what can 1 do this day unto theſe my daughters, or untotheir children which they have
orn 0?
0 He pretends thatto be an a& of his natural affeQion and kind« neſs, which was indeed the effe& of his fear.
44 Now therefore come thou, let us mzke a cove- nant, Iand thou; and let it be for a witneſs between me and thee p.
? Both to our own Conſciences of our mutual Obligat'ons, and to God againſt either of us who ſhall break ir,that he may ſeverely Z
ad
| puniſh us for it.
45 And Jagpb took a ſtone,andſet it up for a pillar g.
'9 In teſtimony of his comp!yance with Laban's Propoſal, and 1s entering intothis Covenant, See Exod, 24. 4.
46 And Jacobſaid unto his brethren, Gather ſtones:
and they took ſtones, and made an heap, and they did
eat 7 there upon the heaps. |
r Towir, afterwards, ver.54. though it be here mentioned by an- ticipation. ' Or rather by or beſide the heap, as the Hebrew Particle al 1s oft underſtood, as Pſal. 23: 2. and 81. 7.
47 And Laban calledit + Jegar-fahadutha : but Ja- cob called it Galeed x.
# Both names ſignifie the ſame thing, an heap of witneſs Laban gives the name in the Syrian Language ; but Jacob, though he had been long converſant in Syria, and underſtood that Language, yet he choſe to give it in Hebrew, which was both a ſecret renoun- cing of the Syrian Manners and Religion, together with their Lan- guage, and an implicit profeſſicn of his conjun&ion with the He- brews, as in their Tongue, ſo in their Religion.
48 And Laban ſaid, This heap is a witneſs between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed ; |
49 And + Mizpahs for he ſaid, The LORD watch
between me and thee, when we are abſent one from
; only Pitneſs, Þ
t Thats,
4 beacon, another. Or watchs 5o If thou ſhalt afli& my daughters, or if thou ſhalt zower.
take other wives beſide my daughters s, no man is with us x; See, Godis witneſs betwixt me and thee.
The curſe is here underſtood, as it commonly is,to maintain a greater reverence for Oaths, and to beget a greater dresd of the curſe belonging to the violaters of it. x ( 5.e. ) Heres now noman with us, who when we are parted can witneſs and judge between us, and puniſh the Tranſgreſſor. Or thus, Though now we have ma« ny with us, as Witneſſes of this Agreement, yet ſhortly when we ſhall be parted, mo man wilt be with us, toobſerve and report our ations to the other, or to do the injured perſon right.
51 And Laban faid to Jacob, Behold this heap,;and be- hold this pillar, whichT have caft betwixt me and thee.
52 This heap bewitneſs, and this pillar be witneſs, that I will notpaſs over this heap to thee, and thatthon ſhalt not paſs over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father y, judge betwixt us. And Ja-
cob ſware by the fear of his father Iſaac,
y He joyns Idols with the true God, and ſecretly chargeth the Religion of Jacob and Abraham with novelty, and prefers his own ag the moſt ancient Religion. Sce Joſh: 24. 2. Whenee we may learn, that Antiquity of itſelf isno certain argument of the true Church or Religion. x
54 Then Jacob Þ offered ſacrifice z upon the thount,
bread, and tfarried all night in the mount.
z Either to give God thanks for the great merciesand deliveran- ces vouchſafed to him, or to beg God's bleſſing upon the preſent Treaty,and upon their whole Family. But it is not fo probable that
Jacob yyould chuſe that tune for the offering of Sacrifices when -_
cyes fo
7 Thatis, the heap of
+ Or, kk bed beaſts.
*Chap.33. *2,
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Lhap. XXXIT. "OM
; En . m_ he could neither honeſtly admit to them, ! Nay wes anti, BREE de from them. And therefore ſeing the | {\meHebrew word fignifies king as well as ſacrificing,as appears from
r Sam: 28:24' I Kings 1: 9. 2 2, C 5 killing of beaſts in order to a Feaſt which hemade m he called, as it here follows,to eat bread, &c.
Neumbi 22: 40: underſtand it ofhi for his brethren, who under which phraſe ture, as hath been aireat ; this praQtice was uſual 1n thoſe times,
Feaſt. See Gen: 26. 39-
Iready nored, and will appear hercafter. And
And early in the morning, Laban roſe up and kiſ-.
ſed his ſons, and his daughters,and blefled them : and
departed, and returned unto his place. man 6p" © it Ab. On