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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 ).
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.
Leah stopped conceiving after the birth of her fourth son, at which point [5] Rachel, who had not yet borne any children, offered her handmaid, Bilhah, to Jacob like a wife in order to have children through her. After Bilhah bore two sons, Leah took up the same idea and presented Zilpah to Jacob so she could have more children through her handmaid.
Rachel and Jacob at the Well by James Tissot (c. 1896–1902) Rachel is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 29 when Jacob happens upon her as she is about to water her father's flock. 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.
Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob by Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, c. 1640. Sometime afterward, the sons of Jacob by Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah, were feeding his flocks in Shechem. Jacob wanted to know how things were doing, so he asked Joseph to go down there and return with a report. [48] This was the last time he would ever see his son in Hebron.
NFL Insider Ian Rapoport met his wife Leah at a sports bar in 2006.. He was early in his career, reporting on Mississippi State University football, and she was a student at the SEC school.. Ian ...
Below Deck Mediterranean star Captain Sandy Yawn and her wife, Leah Shafer, have been living a “fairy tale” since their wedding. “We already did a little [honeymoon]. My boss, John Flynn ...
Jacob and Leah (Genesis 49:28–33; Genesis 50:4–5; Genesis 50:12–13) The only matriarch missing is Jacob's other wife, Rachel, described in Genesis [73] as having been buried near Bethlehem. [74] These verses are the common source for the religious beliefs surrounding the cave. While they are not part of the Quran they exist in Islam's ...