Laban and Bethuel answered: this is from the LORD; we cannot say anything to you one way or the other. The recognition that the providential sequence of events — the prayer, the sign, the genealogy — is from the LORD is the household's theological surrender. Proverbs 16:9 declares that in their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. Laban and Bethuel, even with their mixed motivations, cannot argue against the evident movement of God. The application: sometimes even those who might resist a proposal cannot resist the evident hand of God on it. When God is clearly at work, the opposition falls silent.

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