'Rachel answered, and Leah, and they said to him' means a reciprocation by the affections for truth. 'Is there still any portion and inheritance for us in our father's house?' means the first state of the separation of those affections from the good meant by 'Laban'. 'Are we not considered strangers by him, for he has sold us' means that it had alienated them so that they did not belong to it any longer. 'And also completely consumed our money' means it would destroy the truth belonging to those affections if they were not separated. 'For all the riches which God has snatched from our father belong to us and to our sons' means that all had been acquired by His own power and nothing given to Him by anyone else - by flowing in from His Divine into that which He received from [intermediate good]. 'And now do everything that God has told you' means the Lord's Providence.

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