“And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.”
Then Laban said to him: you are my own flesh and blood. After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month. The declaration — you are my own flesh and blood — is the covenant family's language of belonging. The month of staying before formal arrangements are made is the period of mutual assessment: Jacob is seeing how Laban operates; Laban is seeing what Jacob has to offer. The application: the month of observation before formal commitment is the wisdom of assessing the environment before entering it.
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