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Genesis 31:14

in Genesis 31

And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

KJV

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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This verse in Genesis 31

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him,.... One after another, and their answers agreeing, are put together; it may be Rachel answered in the name of Leah, and for herself, since she is mentioned first, and the verb is singular.

This site's exposition

Do we have any portion or inheritance left

on Genesis 31:14-16

The sisters answer with one voice, and Rachel is named first though Leah is the elder. Their charge is that their father treats them as outsiders, sold them, and spent what was paid for them. They say the wealth God took from Laban belongs to them and their children. Do whatever God has told you, they say.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead. 22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

They display not only conjugal affection, but piety in following the course described--"whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do" [Ge 31:16]. "Those that are really their husbands' helpmeets will never be their hindrances in doing that to which God calls them" [HENRY].

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Jacob related to his wives all that G-d’s angel had told him in the dream, all this serving to persuade them to go with him. However, what he told did not consist of one dream. The statement, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Genesis 31:13:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
It is as if he sold us. Laban did not actually sell them, hence I.E.’s comment.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Genesis 31:15:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַתַּ֤עַןand she answered

    vataanH6030 →331 times

  • רָחֵל֙Rachel

    rachelH7354 →47 times

  • וְלֵאָ֔הand Leah

    veleahH3812 →34 times

  • וַתֹּאמַ֖רְנָהand they said

    vatomarnahH559 →5305 times

  • ל֑וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • הַע֥וֹד¿ still

    haodH5750 →490 times

  • לָ֛נוּ[belong] to <the> us

    lanu

  • חֵ֥לֶק[does] a share

    chelekH2506 →67 times

  • וְנַחֲלָ֖הand an inheritance

    venachalahH5159 →

  • בְּבֵ֥יתin [the] household of

    beveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אָבִֽינוּ׃father our

    ʾavinuH1 →1212 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 2:24

    For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 19:3–9

      Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

    • Ephesians 5:28–31

      In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

    • Mark 10:6–12

      However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

    • Romans 7:2

      For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

    • 1 Peter 3:1–7

      Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

  • Through

    Ruth 4:11

    “We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel.…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 29:32

      And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”

    • Micah 5:2

      But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days…

    • Matthew 2:6

      ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people…

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 31 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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