Genesis 29:17 Cross References

Genesis 29:17

17: Leah had pretty eyes, but Rachel was beautiful in every way, with a lovely face and shapely figure.

As he was approaching the borders of Egypt, Abram said to Sarai, "You are a very beautiful woman.

The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
Joseph's sons, born in the land of Egypt, were Manasseh and Ephraim. Their mother was Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis.
Benjamin's sons were Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
These fourteen were the descendants of Jacob and his wife Rachel.

Then God remembered Rachel's plight and answered her prayers by giving her a child.

Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father, "I'll work for you seven years if you'll give me Rachel, your younger daughter, as my wife."

Now Rebekah was very beautiful, and she was a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again.

"A cry of anguish is heard in Ramah--weeping and mourning unrestrained. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted--for they are dead."

When Rachel saw that she wasn't having any children, she became jealous of her sister. "Give me children, or I'll die!" she exclaimed to Jacob.
Jacob flew into a rage. "Am I God?" he asked. "He is the only one able to give you children!"

Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the LORD will be greatly praised.

"How is he?" Jacob asked. "He's well and prosperous. Look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep."
"Why don't you water the flocks so they can get back to grazing?" Jacob asked. "They'll be hungry if you stop so early in the day."
"We don't roll away the stone and begin the watering until all the flocks and shepherds are here," they replied.
As this conversation was going on, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherd.
And because she was his cousin, the daughter of his mother's brother, and because the sheep were his uncle's, Jacob went over to the well and rolled away the stone and watered his uncle's flock.

When you leave me today, you will see two men beside Rachel's tomb at Zelzah, on the border of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that your father is worried about you and is asking, `Have you seen my son?'

So Potiphar gave Joseph complete administrative responsibility over everything he owned. With Joseph there, he didn't have a worry in the world, except to decide what he wanted to eat! Now Joseph was a very handsome and well-built young man.

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Jacob set up a stone monument over her grave, and it can be seen there to this day.

As I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, just a short distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath."

This is what the LORD says: "A cry of anguish is heard in Ramah--mourning and weeping unrestrained. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted--for her children are dead."

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