Title: Jacob's Flight and Laban's Farewell / Genesis 31
Genesis 31 - Jacob's Flight and Laban's Farewell
Jacob's angry stories of Laban's sons at his increasing wealth
And Laban, seeing that his countenance toward him was not the same as before, said to himself,
Prepare to break off your current relationship with your class. At the same time he received from God
“Return to the land of your fathers, to your people, and I will be with you.”
receive He called Rachel and Leah into the field with his flock and told them
Saying, I have seen your father's countenance, and he regards me not as before
do it You also know that I served your father with all my might.
Your father deceived me and changed wages ten times. will it be
Rado, my father's God is with me and brings your father's beasts
And now he has finally told you to leave this place and return to your place of birth.
I did.
The two wives naturally agreed with their husbands, and they
Declare that they no longer have a share in the portion or portion of the Father's house.
All. Because Laban did not regard them as daughters, but sold them as strangers, that is, slaves.
because of. "The Father ate all our money" is our service
It means that he ate all the wealth that he brought to him.
He was the only one Jacob told his wives about his course in this way.
It is the same as asking the wives to make a decision of faith before God.
Do not expect any share from your father's house, look forward to the Promised Land,
It's about making a decision. This, as in Isaac, is based on the
It demands a decision.
At that time Jacob had his children and his wives and all the ashes of Paddan Aram.
set out to take the mountain and return to his father in Canaan.
All. Laban, on the other hand, was a little far from his house because of his large flock.
I went there to shear my sheep. At this time, Rachel took advantage of the absence of her father.
So he steals his father's teraphim.
Laban heard of it only three days after Jacob had fled, so his brethren,
He took his close relatives and followed the road for seven days to Jacob from Mount Gilead.
crazy. The night before Laban attacked them, Laban said to God in a dream, "You are three
don't tell Jacob for good or evil", that is, for the purpose of changing what has already happened.
You are warned not to say anything assertive or emphatic. therefore
When he met Jacob's party, he felt on the one hand paternal feelings and on the other hand, the
Only scolds combined with lines. There he said, if God forbids
If so, they have the power to harm, and they can also steal their god
reproach for what you did.
Laban tried to find the teraphim, but he could not find it, and Jacob
I am angry that the cost of stalking and 20 years of dedication is poor hospitality. Jacob is Rachel
I had no idea that it was stolen. Therefore, he said, where did he find his uncle's god?
Either way, he declares that he will not live. Laban searched all the tents,
His teraphim was not found. because Rachel put it in her camel
I put it under the cabinet and sat on it and made excuses to the master, just when the sergeant came up and got up.
He said he couldn't fly. Rachel was like a treasure trove of incomparable value.
Rather than letting it be taken away like a silver man, I would definitely do anything.
I think.
Then Jacob said that God had warned Laban that there was a relationship between Jacob and Laban.
He judged the matter, and Laban pursued and intended to pursue Jacob.
He says he rebuked him for it. Jacob says cunning is cunning, deceit is deceit
Against the shroud, that is, Jacob's conduct was because he had been treated badly by Laban.
It may be excused that it happened, but God stopped Laban's vengeance.
Being very good does not prove that Jacob's actions were right.
These words of Jacob made Laban feel justified, and therefore he
Changed his attitude, he reached out his hand and offered to make a covenant. Jacob
was immediately substantiated by his father-in-law's consent to this proposal.
He set out to work, and for this he took a stone and set it up as a monument to his relatives.
Gather the stones, and they took the stones and made a heap, which is what verse 46 says.
Like this, it was to eat the meal of the covenant.
This heap of stones was Jegarsahaduda (Chaldean, heaps of evidence) by Laban.
means), Galeed by Jacob (Hebrew also means heaps of evidence)
This is because Laban, who was the first to speak as an elder,
As explained, the heap became 'a witness between him and Jacob'.
After these words Laban had urged Jacob to be faithful to his daughters,
A covenant of reconciliation and peace between them was first described.
De, according to it, neither of them has any hostility towards the other.
He said that he would not cross piles of stones and commemorative stones. commemorate among these
The stone was used as a witness, the God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and their
Laban says that the God of the father (Terah) will judge between them.
All. According to his pantheistic views, Laban identified the God of Abraham as Nahor and Terah.
In this covenant, which was placed on the same level as the God of
I swore by referring to the 'fear of Isaac' who worshiped with That
Next, he makes a sacrifice on the mountain and invites his brothers to eat bread.
In other words, they participated in the food of the sacrifice and confirmed the covenant as a feast of love.
Moses is implying that this was by the special grace of God.
All. Can you say that it is for the same reason that they come out one after another?
All. Laban had left very amicably. God is amazingly
You rescued him like a lost sheep from the mouth of a great man. in this way
God has publicly stated that he is the guardian of his servants.