LEAH

Passages on this topic · 30

• Genesis 29:16

  Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:31

  Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”

• Genesis 29:33

  She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.

• Genesis 29:34

  She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

• Genesis 29:35

  She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time will I praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

• Genesis 30:9

  When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

• Genesis 30:10

  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:11

  Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

• Genesis 30:12

  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:13

  Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

• Genesis 30:17

  God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

• Genesis 30:18

  Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

• Genesis 30:19

  Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

• Genesis 30:20

  Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

• Genesis 30:21

  Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

• Genesis 31:4

  Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

• Genesis 31:14

  Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

• Genesis 31:17

  Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

• Genesis 33:2

  He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

• Genesis 33:3

  He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

• Genesis 33:4

  Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

• Genesis 33:5

  He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

• Genesis 33:6

  Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

• Genesis 33:7

  Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

• Ruth 4:11

  All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.