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Genesis 29:17

Tree of Life Version

Leah’s eyes were delicate, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

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Just as he was about to enter Egypt he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, please, I know that you are an attractive woman.

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing, Rachel sobbing for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Thus says Adonai: “Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears. For your work will be rewarded” —it is declaration of Adonai— “when they will return from the land of the enemy.

Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears Adonai will be praised.

When you leave me today, you will find two men near the tomb of Rachel in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you: ‘The donkeys you set out to look for have been found—behold, your father has dropped the matter about the donkeys and is worried about you saying, “What should I do about my son?’”

“Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way, in the land of Canaan, while we were still a distance from entering Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”

So he released everything he owned into Joseph’s hand. With him in charge, he did not think about anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and handsome in appearance.

Rachel’s sons were Joseph and Benjamin.

Then God remembered Rachel and God listened to her and opened her womb.

Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said, “Let me serve you for seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”

Now the young woman was very good looking, a girl of marriageable age, and she was a virgin. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians did see that the woman was very beautiful.

Now the men of the place asked about his wife. So he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “my wife”—“or else the men of the place would kill me on account of Rebekah, because she’s good looking.”

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

Jacob also went to Rachel and indeed loved Rachel more than Leah. So he served with him for yet another seven years.




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