Quotes About Rachel

For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel

For Rachel, it might have even been worse, because she had known the rules for a long time, had thrived on them, and had maybe now - if her equally unprecedented lunch outburst was anything to go by - found them empty.

“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her fatherís sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his motherís brother Laban, with Labanís sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncleís sheep.

So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,

Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.

And Rachelís servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your sonís mandrakes.”

Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,

Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachelís tomb to this day.

The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Rachelís maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.

Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”