Lux Domini
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.

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Interpretation

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.

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This thought runs through Genesis 30:26-30.