Genesis Chapter 31 verse 14 Holy Bible
And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?
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And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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And Rachel and Leah answered, and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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And Rachel answereth -- Leah also -- and saith to him, `Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 14-16. - And Rachel and Leah (vide on ver. 4) answered and said unto him (Kalisch overdoes his attempt to blacken Jacob's character and whitewash Laban's when he says that Rachel and Leah were so entirely under their husband s influence that they spoke about their father "with severity and boldness bordering on disrespect." It rather seems to speak badly for Laban that his daughters eventually rose in protest against his heartless cruelty and insatiable greed), Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? The interrogative particle indicates a spirited inquiry, to which a negative response is anticipated (cf. Genesis 30:2; vide Ewald, ' Hebrews Synt.,' § 324). Kalisch obviously regards it as preposterous that Rachel and Leah should have expected anything, since "married daughters in the East never had any such claim where there were sons." But Laban had not treated Jacob's wives even as daughters. Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us (however much they loved Jacob they could not but resent the mercenary meanness of Laban, by which they, the free-born daughters of a chieftain, had been sold as common serfs), and hath quits devoured also our money - literally, and hath eaten up, yes, even eating up, our money, the inf. abs., אָול, after the finite verb, expressing the continuance (Keil) and intensity (Kalisch) of the action (vide Ewald, 'Hebrews Synt.,' § 280). For - כִּי is by some interpreters rendered but (Jarchi), so that (Keil), indeed (Kalisch), though there is no sufficient reason for departing from the usual meaning "for" (Rosenmüller) - all the riches which God hath taken from our father, - thus Rachel and Leah also recognize the hand of God (Elohim) in Jacob's unusual prosperity - that is ours, and our children's (Rachel and Leah mean to say that what Jacob had acquired by his six years of service with their father was no more than would have naturally belonged to him had they obtained their portions at the first): now then, Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. It is clear that, equally with himself, they were prepared for breaking off connection with their father Laban.
