Genesis 31:15
He treats us as though we were foreigners [RHQ]! Your working for him all these years was like a payment that you gave him as a price for us, but we will not inherit any of that money that he got as a price for us. He has spent it all!
Translation for Translators
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
14Rachel and Leah replied, “Our father will not give us anything more when he dies [RHQ].
Cross References
Genesis 29:20So Jacob worked for Laban for seven years to get Rachel, but to him it seemed like it was only a few days, because he loved her so much.
Genesis 30:26You know the work that I have done for you for a long time to get my wives. So let me take my wives and my children, and leave.”
Exodus 21:7If a man sells his daughter to become a slave, she should not be set free after six years, as the male slaves are.
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 →