Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
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Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
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And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
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And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
Cross-references (2)
Passages linked to Genesis 31:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 24:28 The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.
- Genesis 24:67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 31:33 And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and…
Gen 31:33 And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found [them] not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
Ver. 33. And Laban went into Jacob’s tent.] Hypocrites are suspicious of others better than themselves, and impudently inquisitive: Curiosi ad cognoscendam vitam alienam, desidiosi ad corrigendam suam; as Augustine hath it. Those that are most inquisitive about other men’s manners, are most careless of their own.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The men and women’s tents were distinct and separate.…
The men and women’s tents were distinct and separate. See Gen 18:2; 24:67.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And she said to her father,.... As he approached…
And she said to her father,.... As he approached nearer to her, having searched her tent all over:
let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee: she addresses him with great honour and respect; calling him her lord, being her father, though an unkind one, and entreats him not to be displeased that she did not rise up and yield that obeisance to him which was due from her to a father:
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for the custom of women is upon me; her menstrues; which before the law of Moses were reckoned a pollution, and such persons were not to be touched or come near unto, and everything they sat upon was unclean, and not to be touched also; Lev 15:19,
and he searched; all about her, and around her; but did not oblige her to get up, nor could he imagine that ever the images could be under her in such circumstances:
but found not the images; and so left off searching; nor do we find that he searched the flock for any of his cattle there, knowing full well Jacob's honesty and integrity.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 33. tent] Four tents are mentioned, one occupied by…
33. tent] Four tents are mentioned, one occupied by Jacob, one each by Leah and Rachel, and one by handmaidens. LXX renders by οἶκον = “house.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And Laban went into Jacob"s taut, and into Leah"s…
And Laban went into Jacob"s taut, and into Leah"s tent, and into the two maid-servants" tents; the clause affords an interesting glimpse into the manners of the times, showing that not only husbands and wives, but also wives among themselves, possessed separate establishments)but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah"s tent (he probably commenced with Jacob"s and those of the hand-maids, and afterwards passed into Leah"s), and entered into Rachel"s tent last, because she was the favorite. Cf. Gen_33:2, in which a similar partiality towards Rachel is exhibited by Jacob (vide Thomson"s "Land and Book," 1. 370).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the two female servants
the two female servants
This refers to Zilpah and Bilhah.
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he did not find them
"he did not find his idols"
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Laban
Jacob
tent
Leah
servant
Rachel
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 31:33-35 Laban searched for the idols but found nothing.…
31:33-35 Laban searched for the idols but found nothing. Laban never dreamed that a woman having her monthly period would desecrate the idols by sitting on them (cp. Lev 15:19-24).
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