Talált 532 Eredmények: jacob's prayer

  • and Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel. So his answer was, 'I shall work for you for seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.' (Genesis 29, 18)

  • So Jacob worked for seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him like a few days because he loved her so much. (Genesis 29, 20)

  • Then Jacob said to Laban, 'Give me my wife, for my time is up and I should like to go to her.' (Genesis 29, 21)

  • But when night came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he slept with her. (Genesis 29, 23)

  • When morning came, it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, 'What have you done to me? Did I not work for you for Rachel? Why then have you tricked me?' (Genesis 29, 25)

  • Jacob agreed and, when he had finished the week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife. (Genesis 29, 28)

  • So Jacob slept with Rachel too, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He worked for Laban for another seven years. (Genesis 29, 30)

  • Rachel, seeing that she herself gave Jacob no children, became jealous of her sister. And she said to Jacob, 'Give me children, or I shall die!' (Genesis 30, 1)

  • This made Jacob angry with Rachel, and he retorted, 'Am I in the position of God, who has denied you motherhood?' (Genesis 30, 2)

  • So she gave him her slave-girl Bilhah as concubine. Jacob slept with her, (Genesis 30, 4)

  • and Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son by Jacob. (Genesis 30, 5)

  • Then Rachel said, 'God has done me justice; yes, he has heard my prayer and given me a son.' Accordingly she named him Dan. (Genesis 30, 6)


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