RACHEL

Passages on this topic · 61

• Genesis 29:9

  While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.

• Genesis 29:10

  When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

• Genesis 29:11

  Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

• Genesis 29:12

  Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

• Genesis 29:15

  Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

• Genesis 29:16

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

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:20

  Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

• 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 29:27

  Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 29:31

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

• Genesis 30:1

  When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

• Genesis 30:2

  Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

• Genesis 30:3

  She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

• Genesis 30:4

  She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

• Genesis 30:5

  Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:6

  Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.

• Genesis 30:7

  Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:8

  Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

• Genesis 30:15

  She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

• Genesis 30:22

  God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

• Genesis 30:23

  She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

• Genesis 30:24

  She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

• Genesis 30:25

  When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

• Genesis 30:26

  Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

• Genesis 30:27

  Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”

• Genesis 30:28

  He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”

• Genesis 30:29

  He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

• Genesis 30:30

  For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

• Genesis 30:31

  He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

• Genesis 30:32

  I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

• Genesis 30:34

  Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

• 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 31:15

  Aren’t we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

• Genesis 31:16

  For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”

• Genesis 31:17

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

• Genesis 31:18

  and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 31:19

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

• Genesis 31:33

  Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

• Genesis 31:34

  Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.

• Genesis 31:35

  She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

• Genesis 35:16

  They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

• Genesis 35:17

  When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

• Genesis 35:18

  As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

• Genesis 35:19

  Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

• Genesis 35:20

  Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

• Genesis 35:24

  The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 48:7

  As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”

• 1 Samuel 10:2

  When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall I do for my son?”’