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.
26. my wives and my children ] Jacob’s request implies that Laban as the head of the family possessed control over his married daughters and their children, who were included in Jacob’s wages.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Give [me] my wives,…. His two wives, Leah and Rachel, and the two maids, Bilhah and Zilpah, which he had given him for wives also; he desires leave not to have them, but to take them away with him:
and my children; his twelve children; he did not desire his father-in- law to take any of them, and keep them for him, but was desirous of having them with him: no doubt, for the sake of their education, though he had nothing of his own wherewith to support them; not doubting that God would make good his promise in giving him food and raiment, and returning him to his country; and which his faith applied to his family as well as to himself:
for whom I have served thee; not for his children, but for his wives, his two wives;
and let me go; free from thy service, and to my own country;
for thou knowest my service which I have done thee: how much and great it is, and with what diligence and faithfulness it has been performed, and that the time of it fixed and agreed upon was at an end.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
26. Thou knowest my service Jacob is not afraid to reckon on the value of his labours, and Laban had, doubtless, profited greatly by them as he at once acknowledged. Gen 30:27.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Gen 30:26 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.
Ver. 26. Let me go. ] Here Jacob was too hasty; as Moses was, in doing justice before his time, and therefore fled for it. Exo 2:11-14
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
my wives: Gen 29:19, Gen 29:20, Gen 29:30, Gen 31:26, Gen 31:31, Gen 31:41, Hos 12:12
for thou: Gen 30:29, Gen 30:30, Gen 31:6, Gen 31:38-40
Reciprocal: Gen 31:15 – sold us