Leah

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Scripture references

• Genesis 29:16

  Now Laban had two daughters, the elder named Leah, and the younger Rachel.

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah had lovely eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful,

• Genesis 29:23

  But when night came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he slept with her.

• Genesis 29:30

  So Jacob slept with Rachel too, and he loved Rachel more than Leah.

• Genesis 29:31

  When Yahweh saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb, while Rachel remained barren.

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived and gave birth to a son whom she named Reuben, meaning 'Yahweh has seen my misery';

• Genesis 29:35

  Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, 'Now I shall praise Yahweh!' Accordingly, she named him Judah.

• Genesis 30:9

  Now Leah, seeing that she had ceased to bear children, took her slave-girl Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as concubine.

• Genesis 30:15

  Leah replied, 'Is it not enough to have taken my husband, without your taking my son's mandrakes as well?'

• Genesis 30:16

  When Jacob came back from the fields that night, Leah went out to meet him and said, 'You must come to me, for I have hired you at the price of my son's mandrakes.' So he slept with her that night.

• Genesis 30:17

  God heard Leah, and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son by Jacob.

• Genesis 30:19

  Again Leah conceived and gave birth to a sixth son by Jacob,

• Genesis 30:21

  Later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.

• Genesis 31:14

  In answer Rachel and Leah said to him, 'Are we still likely to inherit anything from our father's estate?

• Genesis 31:16

  All the wealth that God has reclaimed from our father belonged to us and our children in any case. So do whatever God has told you.'

• Genesis 32:23

  That same night he got up and, taking his two wives, his two slave-girls and his eleven children, crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

• Genesis 33:7

  Then Leah too came up with her children, and they all bowed low.

• Genesis 34:1

  Dinah, who was Jacob's daughter by Leah, went out to visit some of the women of that region.