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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Genesis 30:1

DOMESTIC JEALOUSIES. (Gen. 30:1-24)

Rachel envied her sister--The maternal relation confers a high degree of honor in the East, and the want of that status is felt as a stigma and deplored as a grievous calamity.

Give me children, or else I die--either be reckoned as good as dead, or pine away from vexation. The intense anxiety of Hebrew women for children arose from the hope of giving birth to the promised seed. Rachel's conduct was sinful and contrasts unfavorably with that of Rebekah (compare Genesis 25:22) and of Hannah (1 Samuel 1:11).

Other commentary entries containing this verse:

Genesis 35:16
Jeremiah 31:15

 

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