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Genesis 31:17

in Genesis 31

Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;

KJV

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

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This verse in Genesis 31

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Then Jacob rose up--Little time is spent by pastoral people in removing. The striking down the tents and poles and stowing them among their other baggage; the putting their wives and children in houdas like cradles, on the backs of camels, or in panniers on asses; and the ranging of the various parts of the flock under the respective shepherds; all this is a short process.

This site's exposition

put his children and his wives on camels

on Genesis 31:17-18

Jacob sets his children and his wives on camels, then drives all his livestock ahead of him. The text counts every possession as acquired in Paddan-aram. He is going to his father Isaac in Canaan.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

John Chrysostom

HOMILIES ON GENESIS 57.16 · Written in the 5th century.

proposed

Consider, I ask you, the good man's noble resolve in quelling every sentiment of fear or reluctance when responding to the command of the Lord. I mean, when he saw Laban's attitude was not promising, he refrained from confronting him as before; instead, he discharged the direction from the Lord by taking his wives and children and making tracks.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then Jacob rose up,....

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַיָּ֖קָםand he arose

    vaiyakomH6965 →628 times

  • יַעֲקֹ֑בJacob

    yaakoH3290 →350 times

  • וַיִּשָּׂ֛אand he lifted up

    vaiyisa'H5375 →656 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בָּנָ֥יוchildren his

    banavH1121 →4930 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • נָשָׁ֖יוwives his

    nashavH802 →781 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַגְּמַלִּֽים׃<the> camels

    hagemalimH1581 →54 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Genesis 24:61Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.3 worksGenesis 24:10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.3 works1 Samuel 30:17And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.3 worksGenesis 31:34Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.3 works

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

    1 Samuel 30:17

    And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 11:11

      The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the…

    • Psalms 18:42

      I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

  • Through

    Genesis 24:10

    Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 11:31

      And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan.…

    • Deuteronomy 23:4

      For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.

    • Genesis 27:43

      So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

    • Genesis 39:22–23

      And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.

  • Through

    Genesis 24:61

    Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 45:10

      Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,

    • 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.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Creation of Light, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Creation of Light, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, HOMILIES ON GENESIS 57.16; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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