Genesis Genesis 30:25-43
Genesis 30:25-43 is the Bethel promise beginning to come true in Hebrew. The verb parats that Yahweh swore over the sleeping Jacob at Bethel returns twice in fourteen verses to describe his Haran prosperity — same lemma, same stem, narrative-past tense. The chapter sets two readings against itself: peeled rods at the troughs in one section, the angel of God doing all of it in the next.
Genesis Genesis 30:1-24
Genesis 30:22 is the canonical pivot of the matriarchal narrative — and-God-remembered-Rachel — and the four-fold formula that follows supplies the Lukan infancy hymns with four independent Greek lemmas. Mary inherits Rachel's vocabulary as closely as she inherits Hannah's.