Genesis 31:15
Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 29:20And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.
Genesis 30:26Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you.
Exodus 21:7And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:2-17
Jacob's Departure. ( b. c. 1739.) 1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father's… Read the whole commentary →