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(3.) How God had owned him notwithstanding. He had protected him from Laban's ill-will: God suffered him not to hurt me. Note, Those that keep close to God shall be kept safely by him. He had also provided plentifully for him, notwithstanding Laban's design to ruin him: God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me, Ge 31:9. Thus the righteous God paid Jacob for his hard service out of Laban's estate; as afterwards he paid the seed of Jacob for their serving the Egyptians, with their spoils. Note, God is not unrighteous to forget his people's work and labour of love, though men be so, Heb 6:10. Providence has ways of making those honest in the event that are not so in their design. Note, further, The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just, Pr 13:22.
(4.) He told them of the command God had given him, in a dream, to return to his own country (Ge 31:13), that they might not suspect his resolution to arise from inconstancy, or any disaffection to their country or family, but might see it to proceed from a principle of obedience to his God, and dependence on him.
6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. 7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten
times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8 If he said thus, the speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle
bare speckled: and if he said thus, the ring-streaked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ring-streaked.
9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them
to me.
10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I
lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: and
I said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap
upon the cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.