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Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. See also: Judges 6:3Hosea 12:12Judges 6:33He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large. See also: John 4:14John 4:6Isaiah 49:10There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone back on the well’s mouth in its place. Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.” See also: Genesis 28:10Genesis 27:43Genesis 24:10He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.” See also: Genesis 24:24Genesis 24:29Genesis 31:53He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.” See also: 1 Samuel 17:22Genesis 43:272 Samuel 20:9He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.” See also: Ephesians 5:16Galatians 6:9-10They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we will water the sheep.” See also: Luke 24:2Mark 16:3Genesis 34:14While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them. See also: Song of Songs 1:7-8Exodus 2:21Exodus 2:15-16When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother. See also: Exodus 2:17Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. See also: Genesis 33:4Genesis 45:2Genesis 45:14-15Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father. See also: Genesis 24:28Genesis 13:8Genesis 14:14-16When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things. See also: Genesis 24:29Romans 16:16Exodus 4:27Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month. See also: 2 Samuel 19:12-13Genesis 2:23Judges 9:2Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?” See also: Genesis 31:7Genesis 30:28Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. See also: Genesis 49:31Ruth 4:11Genesis 29:17Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. See also: Genesis 12:11Genesis 29:18Genesis 46:19-22Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.” See also: Hosea 12:12Exodus 22:16-17Genesis 34:12Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.” See also: Isaiah 6:11Isaiah 6:5Psalms 12:2Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. See also: 1 Corinthians 13:7Hosea 12:12Ephesians 5:2Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.” See also: Judges 15:1Matthew 1:18Genesis 29:20Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. See also: Revelation 19:9Matthew 22:2-10Matthew 25:1-10In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her. See also: Micah 7:5Genesis 24:65Genesis 38:14-15Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant. See also: Genesis 16:1Genesis 30:9-12Genesis 46:18In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?” See also: Matthew 7:2Proverbs 11:31Judges 1:7Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.” See also: Leviticus 18:18Judges 14:12Judges 14:10Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant. See also: Genesis 30:3-8Genesis 35:22Genesis 29:24He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years. See also: Genesis 31:41Genesis 44:27Genesis 29:18The LORD saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. See also: 1 Samuel 2:21Psalms 127:3Deuteronomy 21:15Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because the LORD has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.” See also: Deuteronomy 26:7Exodus 3:7Exodus 4:31She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon. See also: Genesis 34:25Genesis 34:30Genesis 30:20She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi. See also: Exodus 32:26-29Genesis 49:5-7Deuteronomy 33:8-10She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing. See also: Matthew 1:21 Chronicles 5:2Genesis 49:8-12
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 29:1
Ver. 1. East. Mesopotamia, where Laban dwelt. H.
↑ 1Genesis 29:2
Ver. 2. Stone. Not of such an immoderate size but that Jacob could remove it. In that country water was scarce, and preserved with care. C.
↑ 2Genesis 29:3
Ver. 3. Sheep. Instead of this, Kennicott would read shepherds; as also v. 2. and 8. In which last, the Sam. Arab. and Sept.
agree with him; as the two former do likewise in this third verse. H.
↑ 3Genesis 29:4
Ver. 4. Brethren. Jacob understands and speaks their language, either because it was not very different from his own, or he had learnt the Chaldee language from his mother.
In the days of Ezechias, the Jews did not understand it. 4 K.
xvii . 26. Jer. v. 15. C.
↑ 4Genesis 29:5
Ver. 5. Of Nachor, by Bathuel, who was not so well known. M.
↑ 5Genesis 29:6
Ver. 6. Health. Heb. "in peace;" by which name all good things are designated. D.
↑ 6Genesis 29:7
Ver. 7. To feed. He shews his knowledge of pastoral affairs, and his concern for them. M.
↑ 7Genesis 29:9
Ver. 9. She. Heb. He, ipsa. Eva is put for Eia, the letters being similar. C. i i. 15. H. --- Other copies agree with the Vulg. and the Sept. C.
↑ 9Genesis 29:10
Ver. 10. Cousin-german, and uncle, are put for brevity's sake by S. Jerom, instead of the Heb. "the daughter of Laban, brother of Rebecca his mother," and "his mother's brother." H.
↑ 10Genesis 29:11
Ver. 11. Kissed her, according to the custom of the country, (C.
xxiv. 26,) having told her who he was. He was not so young, that she could suspect him guilty of an unbecoming levity, being above 77 years old. C. xxvii. 1. H. --- In that age of simplicity, beautiful maids might converse with shepherds, without suspicion or danger. M. --- Wept, through tenderness, and perhaps on account of his present inability to make her a suitable present. C.
↑ 11Genesis 29:12
Ver. 12. Brother, or nephew. The name of brother, in Scripture, almost corresponds with the Consanguineus of the Latins, or our relation.
↑ 12Genesis 29:14
Ver. 14. My flesh, entitled to my utmost protection and friendship. C.
↑ 14Genesis 29:17
Ver. 17. Blear-eyed. Heb. racoth. Watery and tender, unable to look steadfastly at any object, but at the same time very beautiful. Onkelos, &c. --- The beauty of Rachel was perfect; not confined to one part. These two sisters represented the synagogue and the Church of Christ. Lia, though married first, never gains the entire affection of her husband. C.
↑ 17Genesis 29:20
Ver. 20. For Rachel. It was then the custom to buy or to pay a dowry for a wife. C. xxxiv. 12. Ose. i i. 2. Herodotus says, i.
196, that the Babylonians sold their beautiful women as high as possible, and gave part of the price to help off the more deformed. The Turks do the like. C. --- A few, &c. So highly did he esteem Rachel, that he thought he had obtained her for just nothing, though delays naturally seem long to lovers. T. ---
Calmet supposes that he was married to her the second month after he arrived at Haran; and on this account, easily explains his words, as love made all labour tolerable, and even easy, in the enjoyment of the beautiful Rachel. Usher also places the birth of Ruben in the first year of Jacob's service. A. 2246. But Salien and the context decide, that he waited full seven years, and then obtained Lia, by fraud, of Laban; and seven days after, Rachel. H. --- He was then 84 years old! D.
↑ 20Genesis 29:21
Ver. 21. Go in, &c. To consummate my marriage; (M.) as the time is expired. H.
↑ 21Genesis 29:22
Ver. 22. Friends. Heb. Sept. and Chal. say, "all the men of that place." He was rich, and, though very greedy, could not well avoid conforming to the custom of making a splendid entertainment on such a joyful occasion. H.
↑ 22Genesis 29:24
Ver. 24. A handmaid, by way of dowry, as he did afterwards to Rachel. Both sisters considered it so small , as to say they had nothing. C. xxxi. 14. --- Lia, who committed a great sin of adultery, though she was more excusable than Laban; inasmuch as she obeyed his order. M. --- Jacob might justly have refused to marry her; and then what a dishonour would have been entailed upon her for life! In consequence of this imposition, the legitimacy of Ruben's conception was rendered doubtful. We may suppose, that shame hindered Lia from opening her mouth; so that Jacob had no means of discovering the cheat till day-break, having gone into the nuptial chamber after it was dark, according to custom, and the woman being also covered with a veil. Tob. vii . 1. Hence Jacob was guilty of no fault, as his mistake was involuntary. H. --- He afterwards consented to marry her, (C.) probably on the second day of the feast. H.
↑ 24Genesis 29:26
Ver. 26. Custom. This appears to be a false pretext: for all the people saw that Rachel was adorned like the intended bride, (H.) and were invited to her wedding. M.
↑ 26Genesis 29:28
Ver. 28. Week. Seven days; not years, as Josephus would have it. The nuptial feast lasted a week. Jud. xiv. 15.
↑ 28Genesis 29:30
Ver. 30. Latter. Jacob is the figure of Jesus Christ; who rejected the synagogue, and treated his Church, gathered from all nations, with the utmost affection. C. --- Lia means "painful or labourious;" and Rachel a sheep; denoting, that a quiet contemplative life must be united with an active one; and that the Church must suffer here, and be crowned in heaven. H. S.
Greg. Mor. vi. 28.
↑ 30Genesis 29:31
Ver. 31. Despised, or loved less; so Christ orders us to hate father, &c. Matt. x. 17. C.
↑ 31Genesis 29:32
Ver. 32. Ruben. "See the son, or the son of vision;" alluding perhaps, distantly, to v. 24. He saw Lia. H.
↑ 32Genesis 29:33
Ver. 33. Despised, or the hated wife, Deut. xxi. 15. --- Simeon,
"hearing or obedient."
↑ 33Genesis 29:34
Ver. 34. Levi, "adhesion or union." My husband will now stick to me.
↑ 34Genesis 29:35
Ver. 35. Juda, "praise or confession." C. --- Left bearing for a time. H. --- In the imposition of these names, Lia testified her gratitude to God. T.
↑ 35License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses