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*SISTER*
“LEAH”
(older sister)
(jacob’s first wife)
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*HUSBAND*
“JACOB”
(who was also her ‘first cousin’)
(jacob’s mother’s brother’s daughter)
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*SONS*
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(‘hebrew’ –> רָחֵל / rakhél / rāḥēl)
(‘arabic’ –> راحيل)
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-“rachel” was the favorite of biblical patriarch jacob’s 2 wives as well as the mother of ‘joseph’ and ‘benjamin’, 2 of the 12 progenitors of the “tribes of israel”-
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(the name “rachel” is from an unused root meaning: “to journey as a ewe that is a good traveller”)
(‘rachel’ was the daughter of ‘laban’ and the younger sister of ‘leah’, jacob’s first wife)
(‘rachel’ was a niece of ‘rebekah’ (jacob’s mother), ‘laban’ being rebekah’s brother, making ‘jacob’ her ‘first cousin’)
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