Verse 16

And Laban hath two daughters, the name of the elder `is' Leah, and the name of the younger Rachel,

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 49:31 : 31 (there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah);
  • Ruth 4:11 : 11 And all the people who `are' in the gate say -- also the elders -- `Witnesses! Jehovah make the woman who is coming in unto thy house as Rachel and as Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel; and do thou virtuously in Ephrathah, and proclaim the Name in Beth-Lehem;
  • Gen 29:17 : 17 and the eyes of Leah `are' tender, and Rachel hath been fair of form and fair of appearance.
  • Gen 29:25-32 : 25 And it cometh to pass in the morning, that lo, it `is' Leah; and he saith unto Laban, `What `is' this thou hast done to me? for Rachel have I not served with thee? and why hast thou deceived me?' 26 And Laban saith, `It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first-born; 27 fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.' 28 And Jacob doth so, and fulfilleth the week of this one, and he giveth to him Rachel his daughter, to him for a wife; 29 and Laban giveth to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maid-servant, for a maid-servant to her. 30 And he goeth in also unto Rachel, and he also loveth Rachel more than Leah; and he serveth with him yet seven other years. 31 And Jehovah seeth that Leah `is' the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel `is' barren; 32 and Leah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Reuben, for she said, `Because Jehovah hath looked on mine affliction; because now doth my husband love me.'
  • Gen 30:19 : 19 And conceive again doth Leah, and she beareth a sixth son to Jacob,
  • Gen 31:4 : 4 And Jacob sendeth and calleth for Rachel and for Leah to the field unto his flock;
  • Gen 33:2 : 2 and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
  • Gen 35:23 : 23 And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.
  • Gen 46:15 : 15 These `are' sons of Leah whom she bare to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the persons of his sons and his daughters `are' thirty and three.