According to the Hebrew Bible, Rachel (Hebrew: רחל, Modern Raḥel Tiberian Rāḫēl, Rāḥēl ; meaning "ewe {idiomatically: one with purity}") is a prophet and the favorite wife of Jacob, one of the three Biblical Patriarchs, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah, Jacob's first wife. Jacob was her first cousin, as Jacob's mother Rebecca was Laban's sister.
After Joseph's birth , Jacob decided to...
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According to the Hebrew Bible, Rachel (Hebrew: רחל, Modern Raḥel Tiberian Rāḫēl, Rāḥēl ; meaning "ewe {idiomatically: one with purity}") is a prophet and the favorite wife of Jacob, one of the three Biblical Patriarchs, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah, Jacob's first wife. Jacob was her first cousin, as Jacob's mother Rebecca was Laban's sister.
After Joseph's birth , Jacob decided to return to the land of Canaan with his family. Fearing that Laban would deter him, he fled with his four wives and eleven children without informing his father-in-law. Laban chased him and accused him of stealing his idols. Indeed, Rachel had taken her father's idols, hidden them inside her camel's seat cushion, and sat upon them. Not knowing that the idols were in his wife's possession, Jacob pronounced a curse on whoever had them: "With whoever you will find your gods, he will not live" (Genesis 31:32). Laban proceeded to search the tents of...
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