Quotes about Family
Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
- Genesis 29:19
But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
- Genesis 29:23
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
- Genesis 29:24
Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
- Genesis 29:26
And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
- Genesis 29:28
Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
- Genesis 29:29
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
- Genesis 29:31
And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
- Genesis 29:35
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
- Genesis 30:1
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
- Genesis 30:3
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
- Genesis 30:4
and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.
- Genesis 30:5