{"id":38257,"date":"2018-08-21T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T05:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=38257"},"modified":"2022-03-15T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:33:42","slug":"chapter-summary-genesis-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/chapter-summary-genesis-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter Summary – Genesis 29"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to a love story, the story of Jacob\u2019s love of Rachel. (At least it starts out that way. \u00a0As for what happens next, you will have to judge for yourselves.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacob arrives in Haran, to the local center: the town well. \u00a0At first, things are rather mundane. Jacob arrives to marry a woman from Laban\u2019s family (Jacob\u2019s mother Rebecca\u2019s brother), and he clarifies with the shepherds who are waiting by the well for the watering of the flock, if \u00a0they know the family and how everybody is doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

And Rachel arrives: \u00a0\u201cAnd when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the flock of his uncle Laban, Jacob went up and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of his uncle Laban. \u00a0Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and broke into tears.\u201d verses 10-11.<\/span><\/p>\n

The word \u201clove\u201d appears only in the following verses, but it is customary to view these verses as the moment they fell in love with one another, and the great power of love. \u00a0Power in its simplest meaning of strength. Jacob with great physical strength single-handedly rolls off the rock that is covering the mouth of the well in order to provide water to Rachel\u2019s flock. \u00a0This is the type of stone that typically would require the strength of all the shepherds working together to remove it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacob\u2019s love for Rachel demands of him great strength also in the rest of the chapter. \u00a0Jacob works as a shepherd for Laban\u2019s sheep for seven years where the compensation is permission to marry Rachel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, in an act of trickery, taking advantage of darkness. On the night of the wedding Laban replaces the younger sister Rachel with the older sister Leah: \u201cthen morning came, there was Leah!\u201d (verse 25). Laban does not apologize, but he is ready to talk business. At the end of a week (seven days of celebration following a wedding?), Jacob will be given Rachel, too, as a wife. \u00a0But this is in exchange for\u2026..seven additional years of work.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so, Jacob the lover, finds himself at the end of the chapter with two wives. \u00a0One is loved and one is not loved (see verses 31-33). One is barren, and the other is fertile, and within four verses (32-35), from his fertile wife Leah, Jacob has four sons.<\/span><\/p>\n

Points to Ponder:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0<\/span> The word \u201clove\u201d appears four times in the chapter. \u00a0Three times Jacob loves Rachel (verses 18, 20, 30), and once Leah requests Jacob\u2019s love (verse 32). \u00a0How does Rachel feel? Does she love him or not? The text does not say.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0<\/span> Verse 20 is one of the canonical symbols of love \u201cthey (the seven years) seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0<\/span> Another phrase that comes from the chapter is \u201cyour younger daughter Rachel.\u201d (verse 18), which is a Hebrew idiom that has come to mean \u201cdown to the last detail\u201d (because Jacob could have just said \u201cRachel\u201d or \u201cyour daughter Rachel\u201d but instead he was very detailed in his description \u201cyour younger daughter Rachel.\u201d) \u00a0It is too bad that it did not help Jacob and that he was not specific enough to Laban \u201cdown to the last detail.\u201d <\/span>
    \n<\/span>It is difficult not to pay attention to the great similarity between the incident of the theft of the blessings and the incident of the switching of the sisters. \u00a0In the two stories, in the cover of darkness\/blindness, one brother is switched for another, one sister for another. One is the firstborn and the other is the younger. This is what is called measure for measure. Jacob pays with his life the price for the deceitful action that he committed.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0 At the end of the chapter (verses 31-35) the great competitiveness between Rachel and Leah begins. Between Rachel who is barren but loved and Leah who manages to give birth to one son after another, and each name that she gives her son speaks of her pain and yearning to capture Jacob\u2019s heart. \u00a0The continuation is in the next chapter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","image":{"ID":86314,"id":86314,"title":"Points to ponder","filename":"Points-to-ponder.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/points-to-ponder-psalm-84\/points-to-ponder\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"points-to-ponder","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":86166,"date":"2021-01-09 20:56:58","modified":"2023-12-28 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