Genesis 29:30
And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tandemque potitus optatis nuptiis, amorem sequentis priori prætulit, serviens apud eum septem annis aliis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσῆλθεν πρὸς Ῥαχήλ· ἠγάπησεν δὲ Ῥαχὴλ μᾶλλον ἢ Λείαν· καὶ ἐδούλευσεν αὐτῷ ἑπτὰ ἔτη ἕτερα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹא֙ גַּ֣ם אֶל רָחֵ֔ל וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב גַּֽם אֶת רָחֵ֖ל מִלֵּאָ֑ה וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ד עִמּ֔וֹ ע֖וֹד שֶֽׁבַע שָׁנִ֥ים אֲחֵרֽוֹת
Haydock's commentary
Latter. Jacob is the figure of Jesus Christ; who rejected the synagogue, and treated his Church, gathered from all nations, with the utmost affection. (Calmet)
Lia means "painful or labourious;" and Rachel a sheep; denoting, that a quiet contemplative life must be united with an active one; and that the Church must suffer here, and be crowned in heaven. (Haydock) (St. Gregory, Mor. vi. 28.)
Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).
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.