Genesis 29:16 Cross References - NHEB

¹⁶ Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

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

²⁵ It happened in the morning that, look, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not work for you to have Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?" ²⁶ Laban said, "It is not our custom here to give the younger before the firstborn. ²⁷ Finish the week of this one, and I will give you the other also in exchange for the work which you are to serve with me for another seven years." ²⁸ Then Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. ²⁹ Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his female servant, to be her servant. ³⁰ So he slept with Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked with him another seven years. ³¹ The LORD saw that Leah was unloved, so he made her fertile, but Rachel was barren. ³² Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because God has looked at my affliction, and given me a son. For now my husband will love me."

¹⁹ Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

⁴ Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flock was,

² He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph last.

²³ The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacobʼs firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, as well as his daughter Dinah. All the persons of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

³¹ There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah. There they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah.

¹¹ All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.