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Jacob and Rachel
How Jacob and Rachel are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Jacob and Rachel were married.
Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they "seemed unto him but a few days". He married her a week after Leah, and set a pillar on her grave on the way to Bethlehem.
he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also
Genesis 29:28, King James Version
And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave
Genesis 35:20, King James Version
Where they cross: Genesis 29:18-28
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Genesis 29:18-28
18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
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.
27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
Genesis 35:20
20And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.
King James Version