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In the Bible, Rachel the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt Rebecca was Jacob's mother.
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[edit]- Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel Leah’s eyes were delicate, but Rachel was beautiful of form and appearance.
- Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”
- And Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.” So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.
- Genesis 29,16-20 (NKJV).
- Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die!”
- And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
- So she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may [a]have children by her.” Then she gave him Bilhah her maid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
- Genesis 30,1-4 (NKJV).
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[edit]- Ne l'ordine che fanno i terzi sedi, | siede Rachel di sotto da costei | con Bëatrice, sì come tu vedi. (Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia)
- Sappia qualunque il mio nome dimanda | ch'i' mi son Lia, e vo movendo intorno | le belle mani a farmi una ghirlanda. || Per piacermi a lo specchio, qui m'addorno; | ma mia suora Rachel mai non si smaga | dal suo miraglio, e siede tutto giorno. || Ell'è d'i suoi belli occhi veder vaga | com'io de l'addornarmi con le mani; | lei lo vedere, e me l'ovrare appaga. (Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia)
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Media related to Rachel (Biblical figure) on Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of רחל on Wiktionary
