Genesis 29:21
And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque ad Laban : Da mihi uxorem meam : quia jam tempus impletum est, ut ingrediar ad illam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἶπεν δὲ Ἰακὼβ τῷ Λαβάν Ἀπόδος μοι τὴν γυναῖκά μου, πεπλήρωνται γὰρ αἱ ἡμέραι μου, ὅπως εἰσέλθω πρὸς αὐτήν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יַעֲקֹ֤ב אֶל לָבָן֙ הָבָ֣ה אֶת אִשְׁתִּ֔י כִּ֥י מָלְא֖וּ יָמָ֑י וְאָב֖וֹאָה אֵלֶֽיהָ
Haydock's commentary
Go in, &c. To consummate my marriage; (Menochius) as the time is expired. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyril of Jerusalem On the words Incarnate, and Made Man
31. Let us remember these things, brethren: let us use these weapons in our defence. Let us not endure those heretics who teach Christ’s coming as a phantom. Let us abhor those also who say that the Saviour’s birth was of husband and wife; who have dared to say that He was the child of Joseph and Mary, because it is written, And he took unto him his wife . For let us remember Jacob who before he received Rachel, said to Laban, Give me my wife . For as she before the wedded state, merely because there was a promise, was called the wife of Jacob, so also Mary, because she had been betrothed, was called the wife of Joseph. Mark also the accuracy of the Gospel, saying, And in the sixth month the Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph , and so forth. …