Genesis 29:17

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Leah had tender eyes, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

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  • Gen 12:11 : 11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.
  • Gen 24:16 : 16 The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
  • Gen 29:6-9 : 6 Then he asked, 'Is he well?' They said, 'He is well, and look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.' 7 He said, 'Look, the day is still high; it is not time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them out to pasture.' 8 But they said, 'We cannot until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled away from the well’s mouth. Then we will water the sheep.' 9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep. 11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud. 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
  • Gen 29:18 : 18 Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'
  • Gen 30:1-2 : 1 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing children for Jacob, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, 'Give me children, or I will die!' 2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, 'Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?'
  • Gen 30:22 : 22 Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.
  • Gen 35:19-20 : 19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; that pillar marks Rachel's grave to this day.
  • Gen 35:24 : 24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
  • Gen 39:6 : 6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care; with Joseph in charge, he paid no attention to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
  • Gen 46:19-22 : 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin. 20 In the land of Egypt, Joseph’s two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, were born to him by Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. 21 The sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 22 These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob—fourteen in all.
  • Gen 48:7 : 7 'As for me, when I was coming from Paddan, Rachel died on me in the land of Canaan, along the way, still some distance from Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.'
  • 1 Sam 10:2 : 2 When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel’s tomb, in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, 'The donkeys you went to find have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and is concerned about you, asking, “What shall I do about my son?”'
  • Prov 31:30 : 30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 This is what the LORD says: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping—Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they are no more.
  • Matt 2:18 : 18 'A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 29:16
    87%

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

  • Gen 29:18-20
    3 verses
    80%

    18 Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'

    19 Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.'

    20 So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

  • Gen 29:23-32
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    79%

    23 But that evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob was with her.

    24 Laban also gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

    25 In the morning, Jacob saw it was Leah. So he said to Laban, 'What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve you for Rachel? Why have you deceived me?'

    26 Laban replied, 'It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter before the older one.'

    27 'Complete this week’s celebration with Leah, and we will give you Rachel also, in return for another seven years of work.'

    28 Jacob did so and completed the week with Leah. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29 Laban also gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

    30 Jacob was also with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

    31 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.

    32 Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, 'Because the LORD has seen my misery, surely now my husband will love me.'

  • Gen 31:33-34
    2 verses
    74%

    33 So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he left Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.

    34 Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel’s saddle, and was sitting on them. Laban searched the entire tent but did not find them.

  • Gen 29:9-12
    4 verses
    74%

    9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

    10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

    11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

    12 Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

  • Gen 31:4
    74%

    4 So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flock was.

  • Gen 29:6
    72%

    6 Then he asked, 'Is he well?' They said, 'He is well, and look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.'

  • Gen 31:14
    71%

    14 Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, 'Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 31:2
    71%

    2 Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was no longer the same as it had been before.

  • Gen 30:17
    71%

    17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

  • Gen 30:9
    71%

    9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

  • Gen 31:19
    70%

    19 Meanwhile, Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

  • Gen 30:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing children for Jacob, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, 'Give me children, or I will die!'

    2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, 'Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?'

    3 Then she said, 'Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me, and through her, I too can build a family.'

  • Gen 31:12
    70%

    12 He said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

  • Gen 46:19
    69%

    19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.

  • Gen 33:7
    69%

    7 Next, Leah and her children came forward and bowed down. Finally, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed down.

  • Gen 33:2
    69%

    2 He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

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