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Rachel

wife of Jacob

Wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.

45 appearances5 Bible books1 known aliases

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Younger daughter of for whom serves fourteen years, deeply loved but long barren while her sister bears sons. She finally bears and dies on the road giving birth to near , where Jacob sets up a pillar over her tomb. Her servant Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali for her. pictures her weeping for her children in exile, and applies the image to the slaughter of the innocents.

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