Bible Cross References
his two wives
Genesis 29:21-35
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Then Jacob said to Laban, "The time is up; let me marry your daughter."
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So Laban gave a wedding feast and invited everyone.
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But that night, instead of Rachel, he took Leah to Jacob, and Jacob had intercourse with her.
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(Laban gave his slave woman Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maid.)
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Not until the next morning did Jacob discover that it was Leah. He went to Laban and said, "Why did you do this to me? I worked to get Rachel. Why have you tricked me?"
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Laban answered, "It is not the custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
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Wait until the week's marriage celebrations are over, and I will give you Rachel, if you will work for me another seven years."
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Jacob agreed, and when the week of marriage celebrations was over, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
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(Laban gave his slave woman Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maid.)
30
Jacob had intercourse with Rachel also, and he loved her more than Leah. Then he worked for Laban another seven years.
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When the LORD saw that Leah was loved less than Rachel, he made it possible for her to have children, but Rachel remained childless.
32
Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, "The LORD has seen my trouble, and now my husband will love me"; so she named him Reuben.
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She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, "The LORD has given me this son also, because he heard that I was not loved"; so she named him Simeon.
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Once again she became pregnant and gave birth to another son. She said, "Now my husband will be bound more tightly to me, because I have borne him three sons"; so she named him Levi.
35
Then she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, "This time I will praise the LORD"; so she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.
Genesis 30:1-24
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But Rachel had not borne Jacob any children, and so she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."
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Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "I can't take the place of God. He is the one who keeps you from having children."
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She said, "Here is my slave Bilhah; sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. In this way I can become a mother through her."
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So she gave Bilhah to her husband, and he had intercourse with her.
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Bilhah became pregnant and bore Jacob a son.
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Rachel said, "God has judged in my favor. He has heard my prayer and has given me a son"; so she named him Dan.
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Bilhah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a second son.
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Rachel said, "I have fought a hard fight with my sister, but I have won"; so she named him Naphtali.
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When Leah realized that she had stopped having children, she gave her slave Zilpah to Jacob as his wife.
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Then Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
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Leah said, "I have been lucky"; so she named him Gad.
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Zilpah bore Jacob another son,
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and Leah said, "How happy I am! Now women will call me happy"; so she named him Asher.
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During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found mandrakes, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
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Leah answered, "Isn't it enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you are even trying to take away my son's mandrakes." Rachel said, "If you will give me your son's mandrakes, you can sleep with Jacob tonight."
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When Jacob came in from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You are going to sleep with me tonight, because I have paid for you with my son's mandrakes." So he had intercourse with her that night.
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God answered Leah's prayer, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.
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Leah said, "God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave to my husband"; so she named her son Issachar.
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Leah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
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She said, "God has given me a fine gift. Now my husband will accept me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she named him Zebulun.
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Later she bore a daughter, whom she named Dinah.
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Then God remembered Rachel; he answered her prayer and made it possible for her to have children.
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She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, "God has taken away my disgrace by giving me a son.
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May the LORD give me another son"; so she named him Joseph.
Genesis 35:18
But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Genesis 35:22-26
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While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons.
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The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob's oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
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The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
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The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
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The sons of Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These sons were born in Mesopotamia.
1 Timothy 5:8
But if any do not take care of their relatives, especially the members of their own family, they have denied the faith and are worse than an unbeliever.
the ford Jabbok
Deuteronomy 2:37
But we did not go near the territory of the Ammonites or to the banks of the Jabbok River or to the towns of the hill country or to any other place where the LORD our God had commanded us not to go.
Deuteronomy 3:16
And to the tribes of Reuben and Gad I assigned the territory from Gilead to the Arnon River. The middle of the river was their southern boundary, and their northern boundary was the Jabbok River, part of which formed the Ammonite border.
Joshua 12:2
One was Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled at Heshbon. His kingdom included half of Gilead: from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and from the city in the middle of that valley, as far as the Jabbok River, the border of Ammon;