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Gen_29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
Ver. 23. He took Leah his daughter.] The elder, for the younger; by a like fraud, as Rebekah his mother had not long before, in a cunning disguise, substituted him, the younger son, for the elder. God pays us often in our own coin, {a} and measures to us again the self-same measure that we have meted to others. {Mat_7:2} Herod mocked the wise men, and is mocked of them. {Mat_2:16} And how oft do we see those that would beguile others, punished with illusion? God usually retaliates, and proportions jealousy to jealousy, provocation to provocation, {Deu_32:21} number to number, {Isa_65:11-12} choice to choice, {Isa_66:3-4} device to device, {Mic_2:1; Mic_2:3} frowardness to frowardness, {Psa_18:26} contrariety to contrariety. {Lev_26:21} Even the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth, {Pro_11:31} as was Jacob.
{a} Plerumque Deus servat legem talionis .