Genesis 29:16 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁶ Laban had two doughters, the eldest was called Lea, & the yongest Rachel.

¹⁷ And Lea was tender eyed, but Rachel was beutyfull & well fauoured of face,

²⁵ But on the morow, beholde, it was Lea. And he sayde vnto Laban: Why hast thou done this vnto me? Haue not I serued ye for Rachel? Why hast thou then begyled me? ²⁶ Laban answered: It is not the maner in oure countre, to mary the yongest before the eldest. ²⁷ Holde out this weke, & I will geue the this also, for the seruyce yt thou shalt do me yet seuen yeares more. ²⁸ Iacob dyd so, & helde out yt weke. Then gaue he him Rachel his doughter to wyfe. ²⁹ And Laban gaue Bilha his mayden vnto Rachel his doughter to be hir mayden. ³⁰ So he laye with Rachel also, & loued Rachel more the Lea, and serued him yet seuen yeares more. ³¹ But when the LORDE sawe, that Lea was nothinge regarded, he made her frutefull, and Rachel baren. ³² And Lea coceaued, and bare a sonne, whom she called Ruben, and sayde: The LORDE hath loked vpon my aduersite. Now wyll my husbande loue me.

¹⁹ Lea conceaued yet agayne, and bare Iacob the sixte sonne,

⁴ Then sent Iacob and bad call Rachel and Lea in to the felde to his flockes,

² and set the maydens with their children before, and Lea with hir childre after, and Rachel with Ioseph hynder most.

²³ The sonnes of Lea were these: Ruben Iacobs first borne sonne, Simeon, Leui, Iuda, Isachar, & Zabulo.

¹⁵ These are the childre of Lea, which she bare vnto Iacob in Mesopotamia with his doughter Dina. These all together with sonnes & doughters make thre & thirtie soules.

³¹ There buryed they Abraha & Sara his wife, there buried they Isaac also & Rebecca his wife: & their buried I Lea,

¹¹ And all the people that was in the gate with the Elders, saide: We are witnesses. The LORDE make the woman that commeth in to thy house, as Rachel and Lea ( which both haue buylded vp the house of Israel) that she maye be an ensample of vertue in Ephrata, and haue an honorable name in Bethleem.