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1 | How could Jacob not know the difference? | Gen 29:23 | Inquirer | 117820 | ||
How is it that Jacob, after serving Laban for 7 years, could have intercourse with Leah and not even realize that it wasn't Rachel that he had laid with until the next morning, as indicated in verse 25? | ||||||
2 | How could Jacob not know the difference? | Gen 29:23 | EdB | 117823 | ||
Inquirer Perhaps love is blind. Or maybe the bulb was burned out. Think about it. There have been many liasons in the dark of the night where one person thought it was someone else. EdB |
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3 | How could Jacob not know the difference? | Gen 29:23 | singaporean | 117825 | ||
I think in the context of the Middle East, the culture and the times, the women were probably heavily veiled. The Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary says, "Gen 29:23 The ample bridal veil enveloped the whole person, so that it was impossible to discern the features of the wearer. This circumstance favoured the execution of a selfish scheme of Laban, by whom an infamous fraud was practiced on Jacob ... This, however, is too much the way with the people of the East are still. The duty of marrying an older daughter before a younger, the tricks which parents take to get off an older daughter who is plain or deformed, and in which they are favoured by the long bridal veil that entirely conceals her features all the wedding-day, and the prolongation for a week of the marriage festivities among the greater shiekhs, are accordant with the habits of the people in Arabia and Armenia in the present day." Guess 7 days of wine and feasting, darkness, eagerness, the veil - all helped Laban cheat Jacob. But I think the important point is God allowed it to train Jacob, who was himself a cheat. Hope these thoughts help. |
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