Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 31:17

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 31:17 - 31:17

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 31:17 - 31:17

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31:1 - 31:1
31:2 - 31:2
31:3 - 31:3
31:4 - 31:4
31:6 - 31:6
31:14 - 31:14
31:17 - 31:17
31:18 - 31:18
31:20 - 31:20
31:22 - 31:22
31:26 - 31:26
31:31 - 31:31
31:34 - 31:34
31:36 - 31:36
31:38 - 31:38
31:39 - 31:39
31:40 - 31:40
31:44 - 31:44
31:52 - 31:52

Then Jacob rose up - Little time is spent by pastoral people in removing. The striking down the tents and poles and stowing them among their other baggage; the putting their wives and children in houdas like cradles, on the backs of camels, or in panniers on asses; and the ranging of the various parts of the flock under the respective shepherds; all this is a short process. A plain that is covered in the morning with a long array of tents and with browsing flocks, may, in a few hours, appear so desolate that not a vestige of the encampment remains, except the holes in which the tent poles had been fixed.