Title: Jacob's Wage! /Genesis 30:25-43
Content Title: Jacob's Wage!
Bible: Genesis 30:25-43
Date: 1997. 12. 14 (Sunday) Sunday afternoon at Mission Church
<Review and Organize>
fair God; He gave Rachel a firearm and Leah a child. We each have a lot to give. A fool sees only what I don't have, and a wise person knows how to give thanks for what he has given me.
Rachel's first son Joseph (v. 24); “I want to add another son to me!” Now, her wish is to have another son with the same heart as the triumphant general.
Second Benjamin (Genesis 35); Her wish came true.... Finally, it was time to give birth to a second child. However, when she gives birth to her younger brother Benjamin, she has a difficult birth, and eventually a child is born and she dies. So, when the soul was about to leave, he originally named his younger brother Benoni (son of sorrow), but his father Jacob again called him Benjamin (son of power). “Genesis 35:18 When he came to die, and his soul was about to depart, he called his name Benoni, but his father called him Benjamin!” Of course, at this time, 15-17 years have passed since the birth of their first son, Joseph.
Joseph is later envy by his brothers and is sold to Egypt, but in the end he accomplishes a great work of saving the lives of all his brothers and his family and the lives of the whole world. He gave him one son, but a better son than his ten sons.
Let's sort it out!
Leah's children (6 children): Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulon, daughter (Dinah)
Rachel's maidservant Bilhah's children (2): Dan, Naphtali
Children of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant (2 children): Gad, Asher
Rachel's children (2 children): Joseph and Benjamin
Now, in this way, we looked at the 12 sons of Jacob, who would become the ancestors of the 12 tribes of Israel. These children were born in a situation where there were conflicts such as the environment of their home, the psychological state of their mothers, and competition. Born amid such competition, Israel was very fertile and prospered from 70 to 3 million during the 430 years of slavery in Egypt. This is an increase of about 1,627 people per year. Also, Israel was divided into tribes, and strife, strife, and war were intense.
Jacob's wages (verses 25-43)
<I will return to my hometown.>
Finally, the 14-year period of service for the wives has come to an end. Meanwhile, Jacob had two wives, two concubines, and 12 sons and a daughter. That's just one child a year.
Now Jacob goes to Laban first and speaks.
Now, he wants to go back to his father's house with his wife and children.
Here again, Laban should have spoken first, but we can still see Laban's vulgarity, who never speaks until Jacob speaks up first.
Before the deadline expired, Laban should have spoken first and talked to each other about what happened after that.
But Laban is silent, and the impatient Jacob speaks.
And there is a tone mixed with passion in those words.
All we can think of is that...
① It is saying that you will unconditionally return to your father's house. (25-26) / People always come out like this when they are dissatisfied while working together.
Genesis 30:25 And when Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, to my homeland and my land."
Genesis 30:26 Give me the wives and wives that I have worked for you, so that they may come to me, for you know what I have done to you.
② It is as my uncle knows how I served my uncle. (Verses 29-30) / I worked so hard and worked so hard that I did not sleep, so that an abundance of sheep was covered. is there nothing? His maternal uncle does not recognize or reward him. So there's no reason to be there anymore?
Genesis 30:29 Jacob said to him, "Your uncle knows how I served you, and how you slaughtered your beast.
③ Will I always build my own house? (Verse 30) / Now that I am old and have my wife and children, I have to become independent in order to build my own house.
Genesis 30:30 Before I came, your possessions were few, but they multiplied and became flocks. The LORD blessed you according to my work. But at any time shall I build my house?
<Set your wages!>
His maternal uncle knew that Jacob would come out like this and was preparing what he would answer if he complained, and Jacob seems to have already known how his maternal uncle would come out if he did as Jacob did.
So Laban, as soon as his nephew Jacob's dissatisfaction ran out, replies, "Set your wages!" (27-28)
Genesis 30:27 And Laban said to him, "I know that the LORD has blessed me because of you. If you love me, stay still.
Genesis 30:28 And he said, Set your wages, and I will give them.
Jacob isn't easy either. He knew his maternal uncle's personality and personality well, so he had already prepared what he would say when he said that (verses 31-32).
Genesis 30:31 And Laban said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You will not give me anything, but if you do this for me, I will again feed and keep your flock.
Genesis 30:32 Today I go about my uncle's flock, and select from among the sheep the spotted and the spotted and the black, and from the goats the spotted and the spotted;
Jacob's preparation was thorough. I have seen the temperamental and suspicious character of my uncle all too well in these 14 years. Now Jacob thought about setting a wage that his uncle could not get over with, and he set that wage for sheep and goats, which others did not like. (verse 33)
Genesis 30:33 My righteousness will be my sign when your uncle comes in the future to check my wages.
Those with blotches, black ones, or long ones had little commercial value, and of course, before the sacrificial system was legislated, these beasts were of a kind that could not be sacrificed in the temple of God. And there were very few, not many.
This proposal was very pleasing to Laban. With so much joy in his heart, before Jacob changed his mind, he divided the sheep on the same day and left each other three days, and left Jacob's flock to be taken care of by his sons. (verses 34-36)
Genesis 30:34 Laban said, "I will do as you say."
Genesis 30:35 On that day he will cover the male goats that are speckled and those with spots, and among the female goats, those that are white and those that are spotted, and those that are black among the sheep, he will give them into the hands of his sons.
Genesis 30:36 And he made a three-day journey between him and Jacob, and Jacob tended the rest of Laban's flock.
Why was Laban in such a hurry?
The reason for separating the spotted sheep first is that if the spotted sheep is mixed with the white sheep, the spotted sheep will dominate and Jacob's wealth will increase.
The three-day trip was a tragic aspect of Jacob's concern that his sheep might be stolen.
The entrusting of Jacob's sheep into the hands of his sons contained Laban's intention to strictly control and restrict everything that grew and cared for them.
Therefore, Jacob's wealth is always being checked in Laban's palm.
So, the contract was concluded.
So, did Jacob make such a proposal because he was a fool?
It can't be. Jacob had already prepared a way not to lose as Jacob did.
That is, when the flocks mate while resting by the well, Jacob uses artificial methods he has already learned to increase his wealth. (verses 37-39)
Genesis 30:37 And Jacob took the green branches of the willow, the apricot, and the sycamore, and peeled off their bark, and made a white pattern.
Genesis 30:38 And the peeled branches were put in the troughs of streams where the flocks came and ate, and they were directed to the flocks, and when the flocks came to drink, they laid their young.
Genesis 30:39 And they conceived young before the branch, and gave birth to speckled and speckled and speckled.
======================================30:37 verse
Willow, apricot, and sycamore - Willow is a poplar tree (LXX),
The apricot tree refers to an almond tree or a hazel tree (Ex 25:33, 34),
Shinpung tree refers to platanus.
The bark of these trees is easily peeled off and is bluish or brown, while the inner bark is very white and shiny, and when the bark is sparsely peeled, it is immediately noticeable in its colorful form.
======================================30:38,39 verses
Stand at the water trough of a stream - Here, 'gaecheon' (* , rihatim) means 'waterway' and refers to a small stream where the current is not strong. A water trough (water trough) was provided next to this 'gaecheon' so that the sheep could dry their throats. This is to make the image of the pattern permeate when the flocks come to drink water and mate by looking at the colorful branches when they mate. In particular, the ewes are said to be highly sensitive animals that transmit the aftermath to their young when they are stimulated during conception.
=========================================30:40-42 verses
Genesis 30:40 Jacob set the lambs apart, with their speckles and black color, to deal with Laban's sheep, and set his own sheep aside so that they were not mixed with Laban's.
Genesis 30:41 And when the lambs were lambing, Jacob laid the branches in the stream before the eyes of the flock, so that the lambs would lay their young by the branches.
Genesis 30:42 If it is a weak sheep, it leaves no branch; for this reason the weak belonged to Laban, and the broken one belonged to Jacob.
Separating the Lambs - Another ploy by Jacob to increase the birth rate of spotted lambs by mating them by fertilizing them by separating them from the mother sheep as soon as possible after they give birth to spotted sheep.
Let them treat each other - To be more specific, you can say, 'Let's meet each other and copulate'.
===============================30:41 verse
When a sheep is brooding - Sheep embryos twice a year, and in general, autumn ones are stronger than spring ones. Because Jacob was well aware of this fact through experience, he used twigs only for 'weak sheep', i.e. sheep that were calving in autumn.
Weak (* , ataf) - A word derived from the meaning of 'to cover' or 'to put on' (Psalm 73:6), and seems to refer to a hairy and fragile (Lamentations 2:11) spring mountain sheep.
<I am very rich>
I don't know if this has any basis for the laws of biological inheritance, but whatever it was, Jacob took away his fortune by any means possible. And at last he became extremely wealthy. (verse 30)
Genesis 30:43 And the man became exceedingly abundant, and there were many flocks, slaves, camels, and donkeys.
====================================30:43 verse
so abundant (*, parats meod meod) - the verb 'paratz', meaning 'to burst' or 'increase', and the adverb 'method', meaning 'very', repeated twice It indicates that Jacob's wealth has increased exponentially and greatly in six years.
Was Jacob's blessing really due to his own means and methods?
No, it is God's promise and blessing.
conclusion
Through Genesis, we learn the nakedness of human beings as they are, and we see ourselves as if we were looking in a mirror. And you can learn the hand of God, who is merciful, just, and omniscient, who works and provides. I bless you in the name of the Lord that you simply entrust everything to God, believe and give thanks, and live happily in the life that is granted to us. Amen!