This chapter gives us an account of God's providences concerning Jacob, pursuant to the promise made him in the foregoing chapter.

I. How he was brought in safety to his journey's end, and directed to his relations there, who bid him welcome, ver. 1-14.

II. How he was comfortably disposed of in marriage, ver. 15-30.

III. How his family was built up in the birth of four sons, ver. 31- 35.