Genesis 29:17
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17 Leah’s eyes were weak,[a] but Rachel was graceful and beautiful.
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- 29.17 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Genesis 12:11
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11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
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Matthew 2:18
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18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
wailing and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.”(A)
Jeremiah 31:15
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15 Thus says the Lord:
A voice is heard in Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
because they are no more.(A)
Proverbs 31:30
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30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.(A)
1 Samuel 10:2
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2 When you depart from me today you will meet two men by Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has stopped worrying about them and is worrying about you, saying: “What shall I do about my son?” ’(A)
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Genesis 48:7
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7 For when I came from Paddan, Rachel, alas, died in the land of Canaan on the way, while there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.”(A)
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Genesis 46:19-22
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19 The children of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.(A) 20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.(B) 21 The children of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.(C) 22 These are the children of Rachel who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all.
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Genesis 39:6
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6 So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge, and with him there he had no concern for anything but the food that he ate.
Now Joseph was handsome and good-looking.
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Genesis 35:24
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24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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Genesis 35:19-20
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19 And Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem,(A) 20 and Jacob set up a pillar at her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.(B)
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Genesis 30:22
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22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded her and opened her womb.(A)
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Genesis 30:1-2
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30 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!”(A) 2 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?”(B)
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Genesis 29:18
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18 Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”(A)
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Genesis 29:6-12
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6 He said to them, “Is it well with him?” “Yes,” they replied, “and here is his daughter Rachel, coming with the sheep.”(A) 7 He said, “Look, it is still broad daylight; it is not time for the animals to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go, pasture them.” 8 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.”
9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.(B) 10 Now when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, and the sheep of his mother’s brother Laban, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and watered the flock of his mother’s brother Laban.(C) 11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud. 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s kinsman and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father.(D)
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Genesis 24:16
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16 The young woman was very fair to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.(A)
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