Genesis 30

Jacob's dream reveals the nature of the kingdom of God from the foundation upon earth to the heaven above. God reveals Himself through the divine spark, the tree of Knowledge, or the Holy Spirit. Jacob had to leave a place of comfort, (šā·ḇa‘ Shin Beit Ayin (שָׁ֑בַע) to see the way of the LORD in a Dream. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had not been respecters of persons^[1] and refused the gifts, benefits, and rewards of rulers. The Way of God includes a liberty to choose a compassionate sacrifice of one life for another. Nimrod had sought the way of an exercising authority in Babylon where he he was a god over lessor gods, where he sought to build a tower from the earth to the heavens.^[2] through covetous practices which is idolatry.^[3] The people had to be free to choose the way of righteousness through pure religion but the means and method of the public religion of Nimrods brought confusion, dysphoria, and divided the people and scattered them. Jacob's dream and the stones and ladders is about the form of governance of the people, for the people, and by the people according to the perfect law of liberty which is required in a universe of cause and effect so that the children of Jacob to become true Israel. Out of Bethlehem will come the ruler of Israel.^[4]
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In Genesis 29 we saw in verse 31 Because Leah was hated(śənū’āh שְׂנוּאָ֣ה or [was] unloved or loved less) had her womb opened but Rachel was barren. Leah conceived, and bare Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. She hoped Jacob would love(ye’ĕhāḇanî יֶאֱהָבַ֥נִי ) her more.
V2 begins with way·yi·ḥar- which is normally חָרָה Chet Reish Hey but appears as way·yi·ḥar- (וַיִּֽחַר־) which is Vav Yod Chet Reish- and connected to the second word anger which appears as ’ap̄ Ap (אַ֥ף). We will see this combination in Exodus 32:19 when Moses cast the tablets down in anger when he sees the Golden calf. We also see this combination in several other books and verses attributed to the hand of Moses. ab wayyicḥar- וַיִּֽחַר־ אַ֣ף Exodus 4:14 "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, [Is] not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart." God is angry because in verse 13 Moses agrees to go but wants God to choose another. He is second guessing God thinking he knows better in place of God. Numbers 22:22 "And God s anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants [were] with him." "1. Because he went of his own accord with the princes of Moab, and did not wait till they came to call him, i.e. urged him to go, which was the sign and condition of God’s permission, Numbers 22:20, but rather himself rose and called them, as it may seem from Numbers 22:21."^[5] Again the someone tries to not listen to God but decides with their own knowledge "The apostle describes Balaam’s sin here to be, that he ran greedily into an error for reward" Numbers 22:27 "And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff." Now we see Balaam angered because the ass is not doing the will of Balaam. This pattern continued in other verses.^[6]
Jacob's statement includes this same kindled anger when he says, "Am I in God's stead (place הֲתַ֤חַת), who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?" [Am] ’ā·nō·ḵî, אָנֹ֔כִי I hă·ṯa·ḥaṯ הֲתַ֤חַת in the place of (instead) ’ĕ·lō·hîm אֱלֹהִים֙ of God. He understand that there is a God, there is a reason for everything, and she needs not try to get him to circumvent the will of God. This is a great temptation for all men and women. It is tied to the original error of man who did not adhere to the will of God but chose to use the tree of knowledge as the source rather than tree of life, the divine inspiration of God. The more we reject that will the farther from the light we become until we sit in darkness and know not what to do.^[7]
V1 Rachel envied her sister. In Genesis 29 Leah had several children^[8] and Rachel had none.
V14 In these verses we see that Rachel will still think that she has the power to produce a child through her own design or will and wants to use the mandrakes to do it which is a lack of faith in the power of God. She is trying to remedy God's will with her own. This rolls a stone over the well of her own heart.
"Reuben was at this time four or five years of age, as it is probable that Leah began to bear again before Zilpah had her second son. "Mandrakes" - the fruit of the "mandragora vernaIis," which is to this day supposed to promote fruitfulness of the womb. Rachel therefore desires to partake of them, and obtains them by a compact with Leah. Leah betakes herself to prayer, and bears a fifth son. She calls him "Issakar," with a double allusion." Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The word for mandrake appears in this verse where Reuben found mandrakes(ḏū·ḏā·’îm דֽוּדָאִים֙ ) in the field(baś·śā·ḏeh בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה). The word translated mandrakes comes from the word duwday דּוּדַי^[9] and is the same as דּוֹדַי‎ Dowday meaning loving as in amorous or considered plural with the addition of a Mem דודים. Thes forms are‎ from 01731 דּוּד‎ meaning basket, pot, caldron. This letter combination is also said to be the same as the word for David דָּוִד‎.
"(Genesis 30:17), "Elohim hearkened unto Leah," to show that it was not from such natural means as love-apples, but from God the author of life, that she had received such fruitfulness. Leah saw in the birth of her fifth son a divine reward for having given her maid to her husband - a recompense, that is, for her self-denial; and she named him on that account Issaschar, ישּׂשׂכר, a strange form, to be understood either according to the Chethib שׂכר ישׁ "there is reward," or according to the Keri שׁכר ישּׂא he bears (brings) reward." Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament.
30:25-43 "The fourteen years being gone, Jacob was willing to depart without any provision, except God's promise. But he had in many ways a just claim on Laban's substance, and it was the will of God that he should be provided for from it. He referred his cause to God, rather than agree for stated wages with Laban, whose selfishness was very great." Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
V35 "And gave them into the hand of his sons." —"It has been assumed that these were Laban’s sons, on the ground that Jacob’s sons were not old enough to undertake the charge; but as Reuben was twenty-six, this was not the case. Jacob’s flocks would have fared but badly if they had been entrusted to Laban’s sons, nor could he, six years later, have escaped, had his property been in their keeping, without Laban being immediately aware of it." Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
V41-42 "The stronger cattle . . . when the cattle were feeble." The words for “strong” and “feeble” are literally bound and covered and may be referring to the two breeding seasons. Those born in spring will produce more vigorous offspring because of the feed timing. Those that were "But when were feeble" from ataph עָטַף but the text is וּבְהַעֲטִ֥יף ū-ḇə-ha-‘ă-ṭîp̄ or Vav Beit HeyAyin TetYodPei. And those that were "strong" from qashar קָשַׁר but in the text appears as הַמְקֻשָּׁרוֹת֒ ham-quš-šā-rō-wṯ or Hey MemKuf Shin ReishVav Tav.
In Psalms 61:2^[10] we see 05848 ba·‘ă·ṭōp̄ בַּעֲטֹ֣ף translated "when is overwhelmed" or "is faint".
Questions




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God's plan

1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead (place הֲתַ֤חַת), who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

Rachel's plan

3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

Dan

6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Naphtali

7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.

Gad

8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.

Asher

13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

Reuben

14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes(ḏū·ḏā·’îm דֽוּדָאִים֙ ) in the field(baś·śā·ḏeh בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה), and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.

16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

Issachar

17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.

18 And Leah said, God hath given(נָתַ֥תִּי) me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

Zebulun

19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six(šiš·šî שִׁשִּׁ֖י) sons: and she called his name Zebulun.

Dinah

21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

An opening for Joseph

22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.

Let Jacob and family go

25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

Laban's New Deal

27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.

28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

29 And he(Jacob) said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

31 And he(Laban) said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

The spotted removed

33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

Spiritual DNA

37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

The strong and feeble

41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

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Respecter of persons
- Leviticus 19:15 "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour."
- Deuteronomy 1:17 "Ye shall not respect persons<06440> in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face<06440> of man; for the judgment [is] God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it."
- Deuteronomy 16:19 "Thou shalt not wrest<05186> judgment <04941> judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous."
- 2 Chronicles 19:7 "Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons<06440>, nor taking of gifts."
- 2 Samuel 14:14 "For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person:<"nephesh"05315> yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him."
- Psalms 40:4 "Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."
- Proverbs 24:23 "These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons<06440> in judgment."
- Proverbs 28:21 "To have respect of persons<06440> [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress."
- Acts 10:34 "Then Peter opened [his] mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:"
- Ephesians 6:9 "And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him... 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;"
- Colossians 3:25 "But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons."
- Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses... 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
- James 2:8 "If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors."
- 1 Peter 1:15 "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:"
↑ Genesis 11:4 "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
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Covetousness is idolatry
Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"

Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
↑ Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.
↑ Matthew Poole's Commentary
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- Numbers 24:10
KJV: anger was kindled against Balaam,
- Numbers 25:3
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against Israel. (Baal)
- Numbers 32:10
KJV: anger was kindled the same time,
- Numbers 32:13
KJV: anger was kindled against Israel,
- Deuteronomy 29:27
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against this land,
also appears in:
- Joshua 7:1
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against the children
- Judges 2:14
KJV: of the LORD was hot against Israel,
- Judges 2:20
KJV: of the LORD was hot against Israel;
- Judges 3:8
KJV: of the LORD was hot against Israel,
- Judges 10:7
KJV: of the LORD was hot against Israel,
- 1 Samuel 20:30
KJV: anger was kindled against Jonathan,
- 2 Samuel 6:7
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah;
- 2 Samuel 12:5
KJV: was greatly kindled against the man;
- 2 Kings 13:3
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against Israel,
- 1 Chronicles 13:10
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against Uzza,
- 2 Chronicles 25:15
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah,
↑ Eyes darkened
Genesis 3:8 "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden."

Psalms 69:22 "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."

Psalms 107:10 "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;"

Isaiah 9:2 "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."

Isaiah 42:7 "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house."

Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."

Isaiah 49:6 "And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth."

Ecclesiastes 2:14 "The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."

Micah 7:8 "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me."

Matthew 4:16 “‭The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”

Luke 1:79 "To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

John 1:9 [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Romans 11:10 "Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway"

2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

Job 34:22 "There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."

Matthew 6:23 “‭But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”

Luke 11:34 "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when [thine eye] is evil, thy body also [is] full of darkness."

John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." See Born again.

Acts 26:16...18 to Paul "to make thee a minister and a witness"... 18 "To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me."

Romans 11: 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."

1 Peter 2:9 "But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"

1 John 2:10 "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."
↑ 32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. 33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated(śənū’āh שְׂנוּאָ֣ה [was] unloved), he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. 34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. 35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
↑ 01736 דּוּדַי‎ duwday doo-dah’-ee (same as 01737 דּוֹדַי‎ Dowday meaning loving as in amorous) or (plural) דודים‎ from 01731 דּוּד‎ basket, pot, caldron; same as the word for David 01732 דָּוִד‎; n m; [BDB-188a] {See TWOT on 410 @@ "410d" } AV-mandrake 6, basket 1; 7
1) mandrake, love-apple
1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation
↑ From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.

[Respectperson-1] Respecter of persons
Leviticus 19:15 "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour."

Deuteronomy 1:17 "Ye shall not respect persons<06440> in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face<06440> of man; for the judgment [is] God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it."

Deuteronomy 16:19 "Thou shalt not wrest<05186> judgment <04941> judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous."

2 Chronicles 19:7 "Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons<06440>, nor taking of gifts."

2 Samuel 14:14 "For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person:<"nephesh"05315> yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him."

Psalms 40:4 "Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."

Proverbs 24:23 "These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons<06440> in judgment."

Proverbs 28:21 "To have respect of persons<06440> [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress."

Acts 10:34 "Then Peter opened [his] mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:"

Ephesians 6:9 "And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him... 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;"

Colossians 3:25 "But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons."

Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses... 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

James 2:8 "If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors."

1 Peter 1:15 "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:"

[2] Leviticus 19:15 "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour."

[3] Deuteronomy 1:17 "Ye shall not respect persons<06440> in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face<06440> of man; for the judgment [is] God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it."

[4] Deuteronomy 16:19 "Thou shalt not wrest<05186> judgment <04941> judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous."

[5] 2 Chronicles 19:7 "Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons<06440>, nor taking of gifts."

[6] 2 Samuel 14:14 "For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person:<"nephesh"05315> yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him."

[7] Psalms 40:4 "Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."

[8] Proverbs 24:23 "These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons<06440> in judgment."

[9] Proverbs 28:21 "To have respect of persons<06440> [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress."

[10] Acts 10:34 "Then Peter opened [his] mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:"

[11] Ephesians 6:9 "And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him... 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;"

[12] Colossians 3:25 "But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons."

[13] Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses... 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

[14] James 2:8 "If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors."

[15] 1 Peter 1:15 "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:"

[2] Genesis 11:4 "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."

[Isidolatry-3] Covetousness is idolatry
Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"

Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.

[18] For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.

[4] Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.

[5] Matthew Poole's Commentary

[6] 
Numbers 24:10
KJV: anger was kindled against Balaam,
Numbers 25:3
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against Israel. (Baal)
Numbers 32:10
KJV: anger was kindled the same time,
Numbers 32:13
KJV: anger was kindled against Israel,
Deuteronomy 29:27
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against this land,
also appears in:

Joshua 7:1
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against the children
Judges 2:14
KJV: of the LORD was hot against Israel,
Judges 2:20
KJV: of the LORD was hot against Israel;
Judges 3:8
KJV: of the LORD was hot against Israel,
Judges 10:7
KJV: of the LORD was hot against Israel,
1 Samuel 20:30
KJV: anger was kindled against Jonathan,
2 Samuel 6:7
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah;
2 Samuel 12:5
KJV: was greatly kindled against the man;
2 Kings 13:3
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against Israel,
1 Chronicles 13:10
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against Uzza,
2 Chronicles 25:15
KJV: of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah,

[22] Numbers 24:10

[23] Numbers 25:3

[24] Numbers 32:10

[25] Numbers 32:13

[26] Deuteronomy 29:27

[27] Joshua 7:1

[28] Judges 2:14

[29] Judges 2:20

[30] Judges 3:8

[31] Judges 10:7

[32] 1 Samuel 20:30

[33] 2 Samuel 6:7

[34] 2 Samuel 12:5

[35] 2 Kings 13:3

[36] 1 Chronicles 13:10

[37] 2 Chronicles 25:15

[darkened-7] Eyes darkened
Genesis 3:8 "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden."

Psalms 69:22 "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."

Psalms 107:10 "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;"

Isaiah 9:2 "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."

Isaiah 42:7 "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house."

Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."

Isaiah 49:6 "And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth."

Ecclesiastes 2:14 "The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."

Micah 7:8 "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me."

Matthew 4:16 “‭The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”

Luke 1:79 "To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

John 1:9 [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Romans 11:10 "Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway"

2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

Job 34:22 "There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."

Matthew 6:23 “‭But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”

Luke 11:34 "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when [thine eye] is evil, thy body also [is] full of darkness."

John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." See Born again.

Acts 26:16...18 to Paul "to make thee a minister and a witness"... 18 "To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me."

Romans 11: 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."

1 Peter 2:9 "But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"

1 John 2:10 "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."

[8] 32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. 33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated(śənū’āh שְׂנוּאָ֣ה [was] unloved), he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. 34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. 35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.

[duwday-9] 01736 דּוּדַי‎ duwday doo-dah’-ee (same as 01737 דּוֹדַי‎ Dowday meaning loving as in amorous) or (plural) דודים‎ from 01731 דּוּד‎ basket, pot, caldron; same as the word for David 01732 דָּוִד‎; n m; [BDB-188a] {See TWOT on 410 @@ "410d" } AV-mandrake 6, basket 1; 7
1) mandrake, love-apple
1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation

[10] From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.

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Genesis 30

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God's plan

Rachel's plan

Dan

Naphtali

Gad

Asher

Reuben

Issachar

Zebulun

Dinah

An opening for Joseph

Let Jacob and family go

Laban's New Deal

The spotted removed

Spiritual DNA

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Genesis 30

God's plan

Rachel's plan

Dan

Naphtali

Gad

Asher

Reuben

Issachar

Zebulun

Dinah

An opening for Joseph

Let Jacob and family go

Laban's New Deal

The spotted removed

Spiritual DNA

The strong and feeble

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