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Jacob and Leah
How Jacob and Leah are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Jacob and Leah were married.
Laban gave Leah to Jacob in place of Rachel. She bore him six sons, and at the first she said, "now therefore my husband will love me." Jacob later buried her where Abraham and Isaac lay.
now therefore my husband will love me
Genesis 29:32, King James Version
The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun
Genesis 35:23, King James Version
These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob
Genesis 46:15, King James Version
and there I buried Leah
Genesis 49:31, King James Version
Where they cross: Genesis 29:21-26
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Genesis 29:21-26
21And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
22And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
24And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
25And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
26And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Genesis 29:32
32And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
Genesis 35:23
23The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
Genesis 46:15
15These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
Genesis 49:31
31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
King James Version