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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 ...
Leah and Rachel were sisters; a wife's sister is also forbidden. Jacob's firstborn son Reuben had sex with his father's concubine Bilhah. [10] Judah, Jacob's fourth son, mistook his daughter-in-law Tamar for a prostitute while she was veiled, and had sex with her. [11] Amram married his paternal aunt Jochebed, the mother of Miriam, Aaron, and ...
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). Leah gives birth ...
While Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben lay with Jacob's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. [63] The text then recounts Jacob's children born to him in Padan-aram. [64] Jacob came to Isaac at Hebron, Isaac died aged 180, and Esau and Jacob buried him. [65] The second open portion ends here with the end of chapter 35. [66]
Gad is a son of Jacob and Zilpah. Dan is a son of Jacob and Bilhah. Featured. Zebulun is the sixth son of Jacob and Leah. Asher is a son of Jacob and Zilpah. Naphtali is a son of Jacob and Bilhah. 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 ...
Zilpah also figured in the competition between Jacob's wives to bear him sons. 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 ...
Dinah is first mentioned in Genesis 30:21 as the daughter of Leah and Jacob, born to Leah after she bore six sons to Jacob. In Genesis 34, Dinah went out to visit the women of Shechem, where her people had made camp and where her father Jacob had purchased the land where he had pitched his tent. Shechem (son of Hamor, the prince of the land ...