Genesis - 31:28

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28 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 31:28.

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And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.
Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: and now, indeed,
and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou hast acted foolishly.
and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.
and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?, now thou hast acted foolishly in doing so;
You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.
You have not permitted me to kiss my sons and daughters. You have acted foolishly. And now, indeed,
Et non permisisti mihi, ut oscularer filios meos et filias meas: nunc stulte egisti sic faciendo.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?.... Did not give him an opportunity of taking his farewell, which used to be done with a kiss, as it is with us at this day: by his sons he means his grandsons, and so the Targum of Jonathan, my daughters' sons; and by his daughters Rachel and Leah, and Dinah his granddaughter:
thou hast done foolishly in so doing: since, as he would have him believe that he was both a loser by this step he took, and exposed himself to danger, seeing it was in the power of Laban to do him hurt, as in Genesis 31:29; but Jacob knew what he did, and that it was the wisest part to follow the direction of God.

עשׂו: an old form of the infinitive for עשׂות as in Genesis 48:11; Genesis 50:20.

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