Genesis 29:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and lovely.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Leah's eyes were weak and dull looking, but Rachel was beautiful and attractive.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And Leah’s eyes were tender; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Leah had delicate eyes, but Rachel had a beautiful figure and was good-looking.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ But while Leah was bleary-eyed, Rachel had an elegant appearance and was attractive to behold.

Genesis 29:17 Cross References

Genesis 12:11

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

Genesis 12:14

When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 24:16

The maiden was very fair to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known. She went down to the spring, and filled her jar, and came up.

Genesis 26:7

When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister”; for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me for the sake of Rebekah”; because she was fair to look upon.

Genesis 29:16

Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Genesis 29:18

Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Genesis 29:30

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.

Genesis 35:24

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 39:6

So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge; and having him he had no concern for anything but the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and good-looking.

Genesis 48:7

For when I came from Paddan, Rachel to my sorrow died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”

Proverbs 31:30

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

Jeremiah 31:15

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 not.”

Matthew 2:18

“A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more.”

1 Samuel 10:2

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