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Rachel
Leah is one of Laban’s daughters, making her Bethuel’s granddaughter and Jacob’s cousin. She is less beautiful than her sister, Rachel. After Jacob has worked for seven years to marry Rachel, Laban marries Leah to Jacob first. Leah is painfully aware that Jacob does not love her. Seeing that Leah is unloved, God grants her many children: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah.
Leah Quotes in Genesis
The Genesis quotes below are all either spoken by Leah or refer to Leah. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 30
Quotes
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” […]
Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded her and opened her womb. She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach”; and she named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!”
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Leah Quotes in Genesis
The Genesis quotes below are all either spoken by Leah or refer to Leah. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 30
Quotes
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” […]
Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded her and opened her womb. She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach”; and she named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!”
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