Bible Verses About Rachel

Bilhah conceived and bore Ya'akov a son.

Rachel said, "God has judged in my favor; indeed he has heard me and given me a son." Therefore she called him Dan [he judged].

Bilhah Rachel's slave-girl conceived again and bore Ya'akov a second son.

Rachel said, "I have wrestled mightily with my sister and won," and called him Naftali [my wrestling].

She answered, "Isn't it enough that you have taken away my husband? Do you have to take my son's mandrakes too?" Rachel said, "Very well; in exchange for your son's mandrakes, sleep with him tonight."

Then God took note of Rachel, heeded her prayer and made her fertile.

She conceived, had a son and said, "God has taken away my disgrace."

She called him Yosef [may he add], saying, "May ADONAI add to me another son."

After Rachel had given birth to Yosef, Ya'akov said to Lavan, "Send me on my way, so that I can return to my own place, to my own country.

Let me take my wives, for whom I have served you, and my children; and let me go. You know very well how faithfully I have served you."

Lavan answered him, "If you regard me favorably, then please listen: I have observed the signs that ADONAI has blessed me on account of you.

Name your wages," he said; "I will pay them."

Ya'akov replied, "You know how faithfully I have served you and how your livestock have prospered under my care.

The few you had before I came have increased substantially; ADONAI has blessed you wherever I went. But now, when will I provide for my own household?"

Lavan said, "What should I give you?""Nothing," answered Ya'akov, "just do this one thing for me: once more I will pasture your flock and take care of it.

I will also go through the flock and pick out every speckled, spotted or brown sheep, and every speckled or spotted goat; these and their offspring will be my wages.

And I will let my integrity stand as witness against me in the future: when you come to look over the animals constituting my wages, every goat that isn't speckled or spotted and every sheep that isn't brown will count as stolen by me."

Lavan replied, "As you have said, so be it."

So Ya'akov sent for Rachel and Le'ah and had them come to the field where his flock was.

Rachel and Le'ah answered him, "We no longer have any inheritance from our father's possessions;

and he considers us foreigners, since he has sold us; moreover, he has consumed everything he received in exchange for us.

Nevertheless, the wealth which God has taken away from our father has become ours and our children's anyway; so whatever God has told you to do, do."

Then Ya'akov got up, put his sons and wives on the camels,

and carried off all his livestock, along with all the riches he had accumulated, the livestock in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, to go to Yitz'chak his father in the land of Kena'an.

Now Lavan had gone to shear his sheep, so Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father,