And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
And he went in also unto Rachel,…. Cohabited with her as his wife:
and he loved also Rachel more than Leah; she was his first love, and he retained the same love for her he ever had; as appears by his willingness to agree to the same condition of seven years’ servitude more for her sake, and which he performed as follows:
and served with him, yet seven other years; that is, Jacob served so many years with Laban after he had married his two daughters, and fulfilled the weeks of feasting for each of them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
30. And he loved also Rachel more than Leah. No doubt Moses intended to exhibit the sins of Jacob, that we might learn to fear, and to conform all our actions to the sole rule of God’s word. For if the holy patriarch fell so grievously, who among us is secure from a similar fall, unless kept by the guardian care of God? At the same time, it appears how dangerous it is to imitate the fathers while we neglect the law of the Lord. And yet the foolish Papists so greatly delight themselves in this imitation, that they do not scruple to observe, as a law, whatever they find to have been practiced by the fathers. Besides which, they own as fathers those who are worthy of such sons, so that any raving monk is of more account with them than all the patriarchs. It was not without fault on Leah’s part that she was despised by her husband; and the Lord justly chastised her, because she, being aware of her father’s fraud, dishonorably obtained possession of her sister’s husband; but her fault forms no excuse for Jacob’s lust.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
‘And he went in also to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah and served with him yet seven more years.’
Jacob plants his seed in both women as custom required, but his heart was with Rachel. And it needed to be for he had to serve another seven years for her.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Some have thought that by the two wives of Jacob, are represented the two churches, the Jew and the Gentile.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Ver. 30. And he went in also unto Rachel. ] Which incestuous fact cannot ordinarily be justified, nor may at all be imitated. Wicked Julia, soliciting Caracalla to incestuous marriage with her, when he answered, Vellem si liceret , replied impudently (and is therefore, by very heathens, condemned extremely), Si libet, licet: an nescis te Imperatorem esse, leges dare non accipere ?& c. Herod, for marrying his brother’s wife, was reproved, and punished.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
he loved: Gen 29:20, Gen 29:31, Gen 44:20, Gen 44:27, Deu 21:15, Mat 6:24, Mat 10:37, Luk 14:26, Joh 12:25
served: Gen 29:18, Gen 30:25, Gen 30:26, Gen 31:15, Gen 31:41, 1Sa 18:17-27, Hos 12:12
Reciprocal: Gen 33:2 – Rachel 1Sa 1:5 – he loved Mal 1:3 – hated