17 Leah's eyes were weak,[a] but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 29:17 Or soft

11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,

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18 (A)“A voice was heard in Ramah,
    weeping and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
    she refused to be comforted, because they (B)are no more.”

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15 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“A voice is heard in (B)Ramah,
    lamentation and bitter weeping.
(C)Rachel is weeping for her children;
    she refuses to be comforted for her children,
    (D)because they are no more.”

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30 (A)Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,
    but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

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When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by (A)Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, (B)‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now (C)your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’

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As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow (A)Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance[a] to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:7 Or about two hours' distance

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 20 And (A)to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of (B)On, bore to him. 21 And (C)the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all.

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So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate.

Now Joseph was (A)handsome in form and appearance.

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24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

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19 So (A)Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to (B)Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), 20 and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is (C)the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.

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22 Then God (A)remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and (B)opened her womb.

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30 When Rachel saw that (A)she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, (B)who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

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18 Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, (A)“I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

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He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!” He said, “Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, pasture them.” But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

While he was still speaking with them, (A)Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 10 Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud. 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was (B)her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son, (C)and she ran and told her father.

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16 The young woman (A)was very attractive in appearance, a maiden[a] whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 24:16 Or a woman of marriageable age

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