Genesis 33:2

Then he positioned the women servants and their children first, then Leah and her children next, and then Rachel and Joseph after them.

Genesis 29:30

Jacob also married Rachel, since he loved her. He served Laban another full seven years' work for Rachel.

Genesis 30:22-24

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

Genesis 37:3

When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered tunic for him.

Malachi 3:17

"They'll be mine," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "in the day when I prepare my treasured possession. I'll spare them, just as a man spares his own son who serves him.

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Summary

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

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Rachel

Genesis 29:30
Jacob also married Rachel, since he loved her. He served Laban another full seven years' work for Rachel.
Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
Genesis 37:3
When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered tunic for him.
Malachi 3:17
"They'll be mine," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "in the day when I prepare my treasured possession. I'll spare them, just as a man spares his own son who serves him.

General references

Genesis 32:8
Jacob was thinking, "If Esau comes to one group and attacks it, then the remaining group may escape."
Genesis 35:23
Leah's sons were Reuben (Jacob's first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

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