But Laban sends Leah, not Rachel, to Jacob's tent to enjoy a night of intimacy. The scripture is terse: "When morning came, there was Leah!" (29:25). What a shock!How could it have happened? Apparently customs of the time required no formal wedding ceremony to precede the ...
…17Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful. 18Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” 19Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”… Berean Standard Bible· ...
17Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. 18Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.” 19Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here...
14-16Rachel and Leah said, “Has he treated us any better? Aren’t we treated worse than outsiders? All he wanted was the money he got from selling us, and he’s spent all that. Any wealth that God has seen fit to return to us from our father is justly ours and our children’s...
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel - Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east. As he looked, he saw a well in the
The Story of Jacob and Joseph: Directed by Michael Cacoyannis. With Keith Michell, Tony Lo Bianco, Colleen Dewhurst, Herschel Bernardi. A movie telling the Biblical stories of the last of the Hebrew Patriarchs in the Book of Genesis.
So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were.New Living TranslationSo Jacob called Rachel and Leah out to the field where he was watching his flock.English Standard VersionSo Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was...
Rachel, in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, one of the two wives of the patriarch Jacob. After being tricked into marrying her sister, Leah, Jacob was then allowed to marry Rachel as well. At first childless, Rachel eventually gave birth to Joseph a
Leah and Rachel. From the very first Jacob suspected that Laban would deceive him, and he therefore gave Rachel a sign by which she might cause him to recognize her; but she sacrificed her own love for the sake of her sister, and before the marriage revealed Jacob's plan to Leah. When...
33And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold,Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants.2And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph...