Komentaryo sa Genesis 29:21: Rashi, Chizkuni, Da'at Zekenim & Ramban

מלאו ימי MY DAYS ARE FULFILLED — which my mother told me to remain with you. And another explanation is: MY DAYS ARE FULFILLED for I am now eighty-four years old and when shall I beget twelve tribes? That is what he meant by adding “that I may go in unto her”; for surely even the commonest of people would not use such an expression. But he said this because his mind was intent upon having issue (to fulfil his mission of rearing children who would carry on the religious traditions of his fathers) (Genesis Rabbah 70:18).

כי מלאו ימי, “for my days of labouring (for her) have been completed.” seven full years had passed. Another exegesis of this line: he hinted that the time had come for him to start his family seeing that he was already 84 years old, and was approaching old age. Use of the term in that sense is found also in Jeremiah 6,11, i.e. זקן ומלא ימים.

כי מלאו ימי, “for my days have been completed;” Yaakov means that the number of years since he came to live with him have been completed. Fourteen years have elapsed since he received his father’s blessing when he had been sixty three years old, during which he had been hiding, so that he had been 77 years old when he came to Lavan. The numerical value of the letters in the word מלאו totals 76. [If I understand the author correctly, he means that Yaakov was not telling Lavan the obvious, as he knew that Lavan could count seven years. He hinted to Lavan that seeing he was by now 84 years old it was high time that he married and started a family. Ed.]