Rachel

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Scripture references

• Genesis 29:6

  and here comes his daughter Rachel with the flock.'

• Genesis 29:9

  He was still talking to them, when Rachel arrived with her father's flock, for she was a shepherdess.

• Genesis 29:10

  As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, his uncle Laban's daughter, with his uncle Laban's flock, he went up and, rolling the stone off the mouth of the well, watered his uncle Laban's sheep.

• Genesis 29:11

  Jacob then kissed Rachel and burst into tears.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel. So his answer was, 'I shall work for you for seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.'

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob agreed and, when he had finished the week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

• 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 30:1

  Rachel, seeing that she herself gave Jacob no children, became jealous of her sister. And she said to Jacob, 'Give me children, or I shall die!'

• Genesis 30:6

  Then Rachel said, 'God has done me justice; yes, he has heard my prayer and given me a son.' Accordingly she named him Dan.

• Genesis 30:14

  Rachel said to Leah, 'Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.'

• Genesis 30:22

  Then God remembered Rachel; he heard her and opened her womb.

• Genesis 30:23

  She conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, 'God has taken away my disgrace!'

• Genesis 30:24

  She named him Joseph, saying, 'May Yahweh add another son for me!'

• Genesis 31:14

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

• Genesis 31:19

  Rachel in the meanwhile had appropriated the household idols belonging to her father,

• Genesis 31:34

  Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them inside a camel cushion, and was sitting on them.

• Genesis 31:35

  Then Rachel said to her father, 'Do not look angry, my lord, because I cannot rise in your presence, for I am as women are from time to time.'

• 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

  Finally Rachel and Joseph came up and bowed low.

• Genesis 35:16

  They left Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labour, and her pains were severe.

• Genesis 35:18

  At the moment when she breathed her last, for she was dying, she named him Ben-Oni. His father, however, named him Benjamin.

• Genesis 35:19

  So Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, now Bethlehem.

• Genesis 35:20

  Jacob raised a monument on her grave, that same monument of Rachel's Tomb which is there today.

• Genesis 44:27

  So your servant our father said to us, "You know that my wife bore me two children.