Genesis - 31:15



15 Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 31:15.

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Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?
Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has even constantly devoured our money.
Are we not counted by him strangers; for he hath sold us, and hath quite consumed also our money.
have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;
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.
Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price.
Has he not considered us as foreigners, and sold us, and consumed our price?
Nonne extraneae reputatae sumus ab eo, quod vendidit nos, et consumpsit etiam consumendo argentum nostrum?

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Are we not counted of him strangers? - Rachel and Leah, who well knew the disposition of their father, gave him here his true character. He has treated us as strangers - as slaves whom he had a right to dispose of as he pleased; in consequence, he hath sold us - disposed of us on the mere principle of gaining by the sale.
And hath quite devoured also our money - Has applied to his own use the profits of the sale, and has allowed us neither portion nor inheritance.

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath (e) sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
(e) For they were given to Jacob as payment for his service, which was a kind of sale.

Are we not accounted of him strangers?.... He had not treated them as children, nor even as freeborn persons; but as if they were foreigners that he had taken in war, or bought of others; or at least, that they were born bondmaids in his house, and so had a right to sell them as he had:
for he hath sold us; he had sold them to Jacob for fourteen years' service, as if they had been his slaves, instead of giving dowries with them as his children:
and hath quite devoured also our money; that which he got by the servitude of Jacob, instead of giving it to them as their portion; he spent it on himself and his sons, and there was nothing left for them.

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