Genesis 29:17 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 12:11

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

Genesis 12:14

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

Genesis 24:16

The girl 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.

Genesis 26:7

When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister”; for he was afraid to say, “My wife,” thinking, “or else the men of the place might kill me for the sake of Rebekah, because she is attractive in appearance.”

Genesis 29:16

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

Genesis 29:18

Jacob loved Rachel; so 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. He served Laban for another seven years.

Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded 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, with him there, he had no concern for anything but the food that he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and good-looking.

Genesis 48:7

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).

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 no more.

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 are 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; 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?’