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Laban welcomed his nephew, and set him the stipulation of seven years' labour before he permitted him to marry his daughter Rachel. Laban tricked Jacob into marrying his elder daughter Leah instead. Jacob then took Rachel as his second wife, on condition of serving an additional seven years' labour. Laban and his family were described as ...
She was the second daughter of Laban, Rebekah's brother, making Jacob her first cousin. [2] Jacob had traveled a great distance to find Laban. Rebekah had sent him there to be safe from his angry twin brother, Esau. During Jacob's stay, he fell in love with Rachel and agreed to work seven years for Laban in return for her hand in marriage.
Leah becomes Jacob's wife through a deception on the part of her father, Laban. In the Biblical account, Jacob is dispatched to the hometown of Laban—the brother of his mother Rebekah—to avoid being killed by his brother Esau, and to find a wife. Out by the well, he encounters Laban's younger daughter Rachel tending her father's sheep, and ...
Freddie Mercury’s former fiancée, Mary Austin, remained one of his closest friends until his death.. The iconic Queen frontman met Austin in 1969, a year before the band formed. After dating ...
When Laban planned to deceive Jacob into marrying Leah instead of Rachel, the Midrash recounts that both Jacob and Rachel suspected that Laban would pull such a trick; Laban was known as the "Aramean" (deceiver), and changed Jacob's wages ten times during his employ (Genesis 31:7). The couple therefore devised a series of signs by which Jacob ...
Jacob asked Laban for his wife, and Laban made a feast and invited all the men of the place. [25] In the evening, Laban brought Leah to Jacob, and Jacob slept with her. [26] Laban gave Leah Zilpah to be her handmaid. [27] In the morning, Jacob discovered that it was Leah, and he complained to Laban that he had served for Rachel. [28]
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Soon after, Dinah is born to Leah, and is doted on by her family as the only girl. The tension between Jacob and Laban reaches its climax following the suicide of Laban's abused wife. Jacob takes his wives, children, and livestock, and departs to establish a new settlement. They encounter his estranged older brother, Esau, and the matriarch ...