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However, Reuben, Leah's eldest, felt that this move slighted his mother, who was also a primary wife, and so he moved his mother's bed into Jacob's tent and removed or overturned Bilhah's. This invasion of Jacob's privacy was viewed so gravely that the Bible equates it with adultery, and lost Reuben his first-born right to a double inheritance.
The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of Reuben, which textual scholars attribute to various sources: one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist; [5] the first explanation given by the Bible is that the name refers to Yahweh having witnessed Leah's misery, concerning her status as the less-favourite of Jacob's wives, implying that the etymology of Reuben ...
Rachel is a wife of Jacob, the younger sister of Leah, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin. Zilpah is a handmaid to Leah, who gave her as a surrogate wife to Jacob. Bilhah is a handmaid to Rachel, who gave her as a surrogate wife to Jacob. Benjamin is the younger son of Jacob and Rachel and is Joseph's only full brother. [fn 2]
Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben . She has three more sons, namely Simeon , Levi and Judah , but does not bear another son until Rachel offers her a night with Jacob in exchange for some mandrake root ( דודאים , dûdâ'îm ).
The central figure is Bathsheba, a character from the Bible. She was the wife of Uriah the Hittite. The story, related in 2 Samuel 11 describes how King David, who is shown as a small figure on a balcony in the top left corner, saw Bathsheba bathing and fell in love with her. This painting shows her receiving the letter from David, inviting her ...
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, Trump's pick to lead the EPA, made $186,000 from paid op-eds and speeches. Some of those op-eds criticized climate policies and ESG.
President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk were seen in a viral video doing the signature Trump dance to "YMCA" as they celebrated bringing in 2025.
Bathsheba was Uriah the Hittite's wife. David's initial interactions with Bathsheba are described in 2 Samuel 11. While walking on the roof of his palace, David sees a beautiful woman bathing. He inquires about her, discovering her identity as Uriah's wife. Still desiring her, David later has sex with Bathsheba, impregnating her.