Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 30:3

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 30:3 - 30:3

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 30:3 - 30:3

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30:1 - 30:1
30:3 - 30:3
30:20 - 30:20
30:21 - 30:21
30:25 - 30:25
30:27 - 30:27
30:28 - 30:28
30:31 - 30:31
30:32 - 30:32
30:37 - 30:37
30:38 - 30:38

Bilhah ... Zilpah - Following the example of Sarah with regard to Hagar, an example which is not seldom imitated still, she adopted the children of her maid. Leah took the same course. A bitter and intense rivalry existed between them, all the more from their close relationship as sisters; and although they occupied separate apartments, with their families, as is the uniform custom where a plurality of wives obtains, and the husband and father spends a day with each in regular succession, that did not allay their mutual jealousies. The evil lies in the system, which being a violation of God’s original ordinance, cannot yield happiness.