Genesis 44:27 Cross References

Genesis 44:27

27: Then my father said to us, `You know that my wife had two sons,

Leaving Bethel, they traveled on toward Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). But Rachel's pains of childbirth began while they were still some distance away.
After a very hard delivery, the midwife finally exclaimed, "Don't be afraid--you have another son!"
Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named him Ben-oni; the baby's father, however, called him Benjamin.

So Jacob agreed to work seven more years. A week after Jacob had married Leah, Laban gave him Rachel, too.

Then God remembered Rachel's plight and answered her prayers by giving her a child.
She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. "God has removed my shame," she said.
And she named him Joseph, for she said, "May the LORD give me yet another son."
Soon after Joseph was born to Rachel, Jacob said to Laban, "I want to go back home.

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."
"Agreed!" Laban replied. "I'd rather give her to you than to someone outside the family."
So Jacob spent the next seven years working to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.
Finally, the time came for him to marry her. "I have fulfilled my contract," Jacob said to Laban. "Now give me my wife so we can be married."

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