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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 28:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, etc.] As it became him, and as it becomes all children to be obedient to their parents in all things lawful they command them; and it would have been well if Esau had been obedient to them also in a like case, the case of his marriage: and was gone to Padanaram; as they had enjoined him, to take a wife from thence.
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