Bible Verses About Rachel

and Bilhah conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son,

and Rachel saith, `God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice, and giveth to me a son;' therefore hath she called his name Dan.

And Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant, conceiveth again, and beareth a second son to Jacob,

and Rachel saith, `With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, yea, I have prevailed;' and she calleth his name Napthali.

And she saith to her, `Is thy taking my husband a little thing, that thou hast taken also the love-apples of my son?' and Rachel saith, `Therefore doth he lie with thee to-night, for thy son's love-apples.'

And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb,

and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and saith, `God hath gathered up my reproach;'

and she calleth his name Joseph, saying, `Jehovah is adding to me another son.'

And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph, that Jacob saith unto Laban, `Send me away, and I go unto my place, and to my land;

give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou--thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'

And Laban saith unto him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes--I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.'

He saith also, `Define thy hire to me, and I give.'

And he saith unto him, `Thou--thou hast known that which I have served thee in , and that which thy substance was with me;

for it is little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?'

And he saith, `What do I give to thee?' And Jacob saith, `Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back; I have delight; thy flock I watch;

I pass through all thy flock to-day to turn aside from thence every sheep speckled and spotted, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats--and it hath been my hire;

and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face; --every one which is not speckled and spotted among my goats, and brown among my lambs--it is stolen with me.'

And Laban saith, `Lo, O that it were according to thy word;'

And Jacob sendeth and calleth for Rachel and for Leah to the field unto his flock;

And Rachel answereth--Leah also--and saith to him, `Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?

have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;

for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it is ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee--do.'

And Jacob riseth, and lifteth up his sons and his wives on the camels,

and leadeth all his cattle, and all his substance which he hath acquired, the cattle of his getting, which he hath acquired in Padan-Aram, to go unto Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;