Genesis 29:26 - The Pulpit Commentary - Bible Study & Commentary

Genesis 29:26 - Exposition

And Laban said, It must not be so done— the future expresses the thought that the custom has grown into a strong moral obligation (Kalisch)— in our country (Hebrew, place ), to give the younger before the first-born . The same custom exists among the Indians, Egyptians (Lane), and other Oriental countries (Delitzsch).

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

Genesis 29:26 - Exposition

Genesis 29:26 - Exposition

The Pulpit Commentary

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