Gen 29:18-21, 28, 30:22-25, 35:16-18, 46:19 | ESV | STEP | Jacob loved Rachel . And he said , I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel .

a ch. 30:26; 31:41; [Hos. 12:12]

b[See ver. 18 above]

cSee ch. 8:1

d ch. 29:31; [Ps. 127:3]

e Luke 1:25; [1 Sam. 1:6; Isa. 4:1]

g ch. 35:17

i ch. 30:24

k[Luke 1:59, 60]

Genesis 29:18-21

18 Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, ^a“I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” 19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” 20 So Jacob ^bserved seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”

Genesis 29:28

28 Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

Genesis 30:22-25

22 Then God ^cremembered Rachel, and God listened to her and ^dopened her womb. 23 She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away ^emy reproach.” 24 And she called his name Joseph, ^{▼▼ Joseph means May he add, and sounds like the Hebrew for taken away} saying, ^g“May the Lord add to me another son!”

Jacob’s Prosperity

25 As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.

Genesis 35:16-18

The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac

16 Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance ^{▼▼Or about two hours’ distance} from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor. 17 And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for ⁱyou have another son.” 18 And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; ^{▼▼ Ben-oni could mean son of my sorrow, or son of my strength} ^kbut his father called him Benjamin. ^{▼▼ Benjamin means son of the right hand}

Genesis 46:19

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.