Jacob did that. He finished the week with Leah. Then Laban gave his daughter Rachel to him as his wife. Laban gave his slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave. read more. Jacob slept with Rachel too. He loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

Rachel and Leah asked: Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father's house? Are we not accounted as foreigners by him? He sold us and also utterly consumed the price paid for us. read more. For all the riches that God took away from our father belong to us and to our children. Do what God told you to do.

When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols.

After that they moved from Bethel. When there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. She had severe labor pains.

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

Rachel died and was buried on the way to Bethlehem (Ephrath). Jacob set up a stone as a marker for her grave. The same marker is at Rachel's grave today.

Your mother Rachel died in Canaan after we left northern Syria and before we reached Bethlehem. I had to bury her along the way.

The man was Elimelech, and his wife was Naomi, and the two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. They went to Moab and stayed there.

The leaders and the others said: Yes, we are witnesses. May Jehovah make your wife become like Rachel and Leah, who bore many children to Jacob. May you become rich in the clan of Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

This is what Jehovah says: 'A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is crying for her children. She refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.'

You Bethlehem Ephrathah who are little to be among the thousands of Judah. Out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel! His origin is from of old, from everlasting (days of antiquity) (ancient times).