Bible Cross References
his two wives
Genesis 29:21-35
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And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my days have been fulfilled.
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And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast.
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And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him; and he went in to her.
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And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a maidservant.
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And it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?
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And Laban said, It is not done so in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
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Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you will serve with me yet another seven years.
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And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week. So he gave him his daughter Rachel as wife also.
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And Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as a maidservant.
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And Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years.
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When Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
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And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, Jehovah has surely looked upon my affliction. Now therefore, my husband will love me.
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And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, He has therefore given me this one also. And she called his name Simeon.
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And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi.
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And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Now I will praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she stopped giving birth.
Genesis 30:1-24
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Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel was jealous of her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me sons, or if not I shall die!
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And Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?
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And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she shall give birth on my knees, that I also may be built up by her.
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And she gave him Bilhah her maid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
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And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
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And Rachel said, God has judged my case, and has also heard my voice and given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.
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And Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
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And Rachel said, With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. So she called his name Naphtali.
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And when Leah saw that she had stopped giving birth, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife.
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And Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
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And Leah said, Good fortune has come! So she called his name Gad.
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And Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
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And Leah said, I am happy, for the daughters shall call me blessed. So she called his name Asher.
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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.
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And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes.
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When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, You must come in to me, for hiring I have hired you with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
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And God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
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And Leah said, God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband. So she called his name Issachar.
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And Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
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And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good endowment; this time my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. So she called his name Zebulun.
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And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
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And God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.
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And she conceived and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.
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So she called his name Joseph, and said, Jehovah shall add to me another son.
Genesis 35:18
And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 35:22-26
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And it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
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the sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and 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 Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali;
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and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan.
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
the ford Jabbok
Deuteronomy 2:37
Only you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon; anywhere along the River Jabbok, nor to the cities of the mountains, nor wherever Jehovah our God had forbidden us.
Deuteronomy 3:16
And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the River Arnon, the middle of the river as the border, as far as the River Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua 12:2
Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and ruled half of Gilead, from Aroer, on the bank of the River Arnon, from the middle of that river, even as far as the River Jabbok, the border of the Ammonites,